Peg Bracken Quotes - Page 3

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• Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curling up with it.

  Peg Bracken

  Thinking, People, Paradise

  1960 The I Hate to Cook Book, ch.9.

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• When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about - more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.

  Peg Bracken

  Sound, Recipes, Devotion

  "I Didn't Come Here to Argue (My Feud With Food)". Book by Peg Bracken (p. 22), 1969.

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• The same fire that hardens the egg will melt the butter; and much depends on the personality type, whether you customarily rise to a challenge or whether you sink. For as long as I can remember, I have been a sinker. One challenge, and I drop like a rock.

  Peg Bracken

  Fire, Rocks, Eggs

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply.

  Peg Bracken

  Food, Comforting, Forgotten

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.

  Peg Bracken

  Mother, Thinking, Enough

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.

  Peg Bracken

  Worry, Fats, Being Fat

  Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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