"I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock."

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, American Writer

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"I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock."

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"Desire creates its own object."

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"There are no original ideas. There are only original people."

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"Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing."

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"The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good."

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"Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people."

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