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21 " In foreign countries I am drawn into grocery shops, supermarkets and kitchen supply houses. I explain this by reminding my friends that, as I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology, it is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it. "
― Laurie Colwin , Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
22 " Holly sat down, as if at home. But, Guido wondered, would she be happy where there were no trays? "
― Laurie Colwin , Happy All the Time
23 " Most of his time appeared to be spent bumming cigarettes from people whose annual income was about a fifth of his own. "
24 " Gertje was right. To be an American was to be blessed with a kind of idiotic but very useful innocence. "
― Laurie Colwin , Goodbye Without Leaving
25 " Out on the street I felt lost wandering around without my child. I felt I ought to wear a pin that said: I have a child in school at the moment. "
26 " Their first actual kiss was a one-celled organism which, after they had been standing on the stairway kissing for some time, evolved into something rather grander--a bird of paradise, for example. "
― Laurie Colwin , Another Marvelous Thing
27 " We listened to late-night jazz on the radio and went to jazz clubs, thick with smoke, and drank warm beer. In the daytime I lay on my own bed and read books. I kept a stack by my bed and read them off one by one till they dwindled like a pile of pancakes. "
28 " I put my lilies in front of Sam’s plaque. I didn’t want him to rest in peace. I wanted him to bounce around in death as he had in life, fearless, goofy, and fleet. "
― Laurie Colwin , Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object
29 " When he went to college he wrote me letters which I answered within four days. Each letter took at least five drafts before I thought it suitable to send to Cambridge. "
30 " Anxiety, she thought, was like a flock of birds on a telephone line. When people came around they flapped off, and when the people went away they hopped back on. "
― Laurie Colwin , Family Happiness
31 " Holly le equilibraba la vida y se la hacía más agradable; pero despertaba en él una añoranza feroz, hasta cuando estaban en la misma habitación, como si él nunca pudiera saciarse. A veces le parecía un cristal de cuarzo grisáceo. Podías ver a través de él y también en su interior, y su perfección te dejaba boquiabierto. Buscabas información sobre él para saber cómo se había formado. Te lo llevabas a casa y lo guardabas como si fuera un tesoro. Se quedaba en el estante para que lo admiraran en todo su esplendor sin nunca, jamás, revelar el menor dato sobre sí mismo. "
32 " I’d like to go to all the knitting shops,” Doria said. “I want to see some rustic, hand-pulled yarn. I would also like to see some colonial fabrics, and, if possible, I would like to have some contact with a loom. "
33 " Todo había terminado, se dijo. Lo que había terminado era la persona que, hasta la víspera, había sido toda su vida: una persona a las puertas de algo. Y llevaba tanto tiempo siendo esa persona que dejar de serlo la asustaba. Esa persona había estado esperando Eso. Y Eso, por supuesto, era el amor. El amor consistía en poner tu personalidad en el escaparate para ver qué acababa atrayendo. Lo que atraía era un ser resplandeciente que caía del cielo y que, al instante, se enamoraba de ti por tu carácter. Que ese ser resplandeciente fuera Vincent Cardworthy era algo que a Misty le costaba bastante de creer, pero ahí lo tenía. Había caído del cielo y la quería por su carácter. "
34 " Her research revealed that knitting was a very popular indoor sport and that a loom was on permanent display at the Wool Institute, which also had a few samples of colonial fabric. "
35 " I feel that weaving is a precise metaphor for the way in which life is made,” she said. “By which I mean individually constructed. Any strand can be woven in at the dictation of the imagination. I think of the philosophy of history as a loom of that sort. It is, isn’t it? "
36 " Life is never smooth to the great-granddaughter of tin peddlers who were kicked out of Russia,' said Misty. 'It's no accident that all my family is in one embattled profession or another. We're just waiting for the Cossacks to come back. When the Cossacks come to Connecticut, you'll understand.'Meanwhile, it was hard to feel much gloom at all, although to keep her balance, Misty clung to it wherever she found it. "
37 " Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. "
38 " Sam loved me in a way that was as close as love could come to his mother’s indifference. It was playful, bouncy, it accepted the situation between us without annotations, and without realizing it, he stuck me like a buffer between himself and his parents. He had a wife, and that warded them off. How could he be wild if he was settled? How could he be in trouble if he was married? He might have known these things, but coming from that emotionally monosyllabic household, how could he have had a vocabulary for them? "
39 " He was the soul of kindness and concern. The fact that he had talked to my father about this made me want to stab him. But I only said, “I’ll talk to Patrick. This doesn’t sit right with me. "
40 " We domestic sensualists live in a state of longing, no matter how comfortable our own places are. "
― Laurie Colwin , The Lone Pilgrim