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• I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their four-year-old girls clasped to their pant legs and say, "Yeah, but studies say kids can buy drugs more easily than they can buy alcohol." To which I always respond, "I guess that means you keep heroin in your liquor cabinet?

  Koren Zailckas

  Girl, Father, Party

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• I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation.” —Associated Press reporter Jack Sullivan, attempting to recount a 3 A.M. exchange we had at a dinner party and inadvertently describing the past ten years of my life.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Party, Past, Years

  Chuck Klosterman (2013). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?

  Nigel Slater

  Couple, Party, Gay

  "In This Month's OFM". www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.

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• There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.

  Cyril Connolly

  Party, Book, Writing

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• When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it’s beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony; when we go to dinner parties and everyone cleans together afterward without having to be asked; when I see Caleb help strangers carry their groceries, I fall in love with this life all over again.

  Veronica Roth

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Party

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

  Donald T. Regan

  Party, People, Interesting

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• A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do for a living?" "I study astronomy," he replied. "Really? said the teenager, wide-eyed. "I finished astronomy last year."

  James Keller

  Life, Girl, Teenager

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• Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you?
  Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.

  A.C. Grayling

  Children, Party, Hands

  A. C. Grayling (2011). “The Good Book: A Secular Bible”, p.42, A&C Black

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• With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.

  Joe Bastianich

  Party, Giving, Four

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• It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them back. Often they retaliate by inviting you again, and you must then extend another invitation. Back and forth you go, like Ping-Pong balls, and what you end up with is called social life.

  Laurie Colwin

  Party, Giving, People

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• When New Yorkers tell one about the dangers of their city, the muggings, the dinner parties to which no one turns up for fear of being attacked on the way, the traffic snarl-ups, the bland indifference of the city cops, they are unmistakably bragging.

  Jonathan Raban

  New York, Party, Cities

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Soft City: Picador Classic”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.

  Phillip Lopate

  Party, Cities, Dinner

  Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.148, Basic Books

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• I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.

  Morena Baccarin

  Party, Italian, Avid

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don't talk about work and money. They talk about interesting things at dinner parties.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Party, America, People

  "Where the heart is". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2006.

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• You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you?

  Toby Young

  Party, Self, Laughing

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• Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

  Boris Johnson

  Party, Book, Writing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Party, Soul, Dinner

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.101, Baen Books

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• Know your load. That's rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I'm not going to be the schmuck who shows up in Orlando twobirds short of a dinner party....I know I'm pulling out of Houston with exactly forty-two Gentoo penguins, seventeen Jamaican land iguanas, four tuataras from New Zealand, and a pair of rare, civet-like mammals called linsangs. No more, no less.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Party, Land, Two

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• At your next dinner party, try playing the following game. Challenge everyone around the table to produce a single drug that can cure people of an illness, other then antibiotics. If you come up with anything, stop whatever you are doing and call me.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Cancer, Party, Games

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• I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered, rambling house, the feuding family, the rich suitor, the disruptive visitors. The novel has all of those delightful things, but it also defied every one of my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know.

  Maile Meloy

  Party, Thinking, Giving

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• If I had to give my younger self some advice, I think it would be that you have to laugh at things-things that scare you, things that intimidate you, things that hurt you, When you're humiliated, when you're rejected, you have to be able to take these bad experiences you have and turn them into a great dinner party joke.

  Taylor Swift

  Hurt, Party, Thinking

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• I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my guests.

  Caroline Rhea

  Party, Thinking, Guests

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• Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it,
  just loves it.
  He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.

  Ted Allen

  Party, People, Guests

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• I mean, being provincial is a privilege in a way. Also people in New York think everybody interacts because they all take the subway. "Oh, I see all these different people! All these different walks of life on the subway." Well, they're not coming to your dinner party. Certainly, in small-town Nebraska, everyone indeed did mix together.

  Meghan Daum

  Party, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think with success you do get a little more guarded and you start to change your friends. You become more isolated. And you start hanging around with people who have money! I think that's the biggest thing. Once you do get a bit of change in your pocket, you start hanging around with other people who have some change. It was kind of strange to all of a sudden go from one extreme-Manhattan-to where I went, upstate New York. But I did it because I was dying in the city. I couldn't take it. I couldn't take one more dinner party. I couldn't take one more party, period.

  Richard Prince

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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