Dinner Guests Quotes

• En una cena hay que comer bien, pero no demasiado bien, y hablar bien, pero no demasiado bien.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspiración, Inteligencia, Feliz New Year

  Writer's Notebook (1949) p. 17 (escrito en 1896)

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• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  Ward McAllister

  House Guests, Sacred, Accepted

  Ward McAllister (1890). “Society as I Have Found it”

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• Intento recibir a mis amigos con una copa en la mano, una cálida sonrisa en la cara y buena música de fondo, porque eso es lo que hace que una cena empiece con buen pie.

  Ina Garten

  Smile, Fun, Party

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• I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

  Barbara Walters

  Party, Nbc, Office

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• When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start seeming more persuasive.

  Laura Kipnis

  Backyards, Culture, Argument

  Laura Kipnis (2009). “Against Love: A Polemic”, p.24, Vintage

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• Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Hot, Soup

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.125, Vintage

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• Sé cocinar, pero me pondría muy nerviosa que mis invitados juzgaran mi comida.

  Prabal Gurung

  Mean, Nervous, Cooks

  "Prabal Gurung on His Love Affair with Women, SS13 Campaign, and Target Collection". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. January 31, 2013.

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• El papel debe ser comestible, nutritivo. Las tintas utilizadas para imprimir o escribir deben tener sabores deliciosos. Las revistas o periódicos que se leen en el desayuno deben comerse en el almuerzo. En lugar de tirar el correo a la papelera, hay que guardarlo para los invitados a cenar.

  John Cage

  Escribir, Almuerzo, Debería

  John Cage (2010). "M: Writings '67-'72", p.115, Wesleyan University Press

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• Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they suddenly experience what in French is called esprit de l'escalier or wit of the staircase: a great thought which unfortunately is an afterthought, like a clever reply that would have stunned all the other dinner guests - if only you had thought of it before walking down the stairs after the party is over.

  Bertrand Meyer

  Running, Clever, Party

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• Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book is like being trapped in a room for ten hours with those characters. Think of your main characters as dinner guests. Would your friends want to spend ten hours with the characters you’ve created? Your characters can be loveable, or they can be evil, but they’d better be compelling. If not, your reader will be bored and leave.

  Po Bronson

  Libro, Lectura, Carácter

  "Advice on Writing". www.pobronson.com.

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• Incluso hoy en día, a las niñas inglesas bien educadas sus madres les enseñan a hervir todas las verduras durante al menos un mes y medio, por si acaso uno de los invitados a la cena se presenta sin dientes.

  Calvin Trillin

  Girl, Mother, Justice

  Calvin Trillin (1984). "Third Helpings", Viking Press

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• My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.

  Alison Bechdel

  Father, Sunset, Blow

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• The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

  Mason Cooley

  Elderly, May, Reason

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