"News is like food: it is the cooking……" — Rose Macaulay

"News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself."

29 Quotes by Rose Macaulay

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It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.
We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our…
Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time…
They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their…
Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and…
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at…
Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it --…
Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before…
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes…
You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can…

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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the… — Albert Bandura
I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable. — Todd Barry
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is… — Jean Baudrillard
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which… — Pope Benedict XVI
Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy. — Ambrose Bierce
The whole Valentine's thing is fine, but you don't back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of… — Lewis Black
I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're… — David Bowie
I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over… — Jo Brand
I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that… — Jo Brand
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing… — Julie Burchill
I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't… — Herman Cain
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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"News is like food: it is the cooking……" — Rose Macaulay

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