"Once learnt, this business of cooking was to……" — Rose Macaulay
"Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and womankind has devoted to the preparation of dishes that are to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream, like a shadow, and as a post that hastes by, and the air closes behind them, afterwards no sign where they went is to be found."
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Rose Macaulay
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29 Quotes by Rose Macaulay
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It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.
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We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our…
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Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
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They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their…
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Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and…
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The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at…
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Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it --…
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Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before…
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Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes…
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You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
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Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can…
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News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
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God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so…
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
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During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards…
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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year.…
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