Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other things... My own collection is sunrises; and I find that they have their advantages. Sunrises are usually handsome, they can't possibly be dusted, and they take only a little room, so long as it has a window to see them from.

Peg Bracken

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Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

Peg Bracken

christmas time love

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

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photograph taken natural

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

Peg Bracken

cold wife done

the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

Peg Bracken

illusion practicals long

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

Peg Bracken

hate cooking feet

How to Comfort Yourself When You Have Acted Like a Jackass

Peg Bracken

upset sunshine people

I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly a washroom wall: 'The time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted.' I think I'll have that printed some day on a T-shirt or the bedroom ceiling.

Peg Bracken

wall mirrors thinking

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

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cutting memorable two

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

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restaurants cooks copies

You're not supposed to cuss when you're an old lady, and just when there's so much more to cuss about.

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old-lady

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

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aging important years

Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that's where my responsibility ends. But I just don't wait for ideas. I look for them. Constantly. And if I don't use the ideas that I find, they're going to quit showing up.

Peg Bracken

responsibility waiting ideas

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

Peg Bracken

simple life-is facts

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

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trouble way thinking

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

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easier funny travel

forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

Peg Bracken

age names giving

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

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lines growth children

One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is.

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life-is sex travel

But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.

Peg Bracken

experience learning way

You may have noticed, as I have, that if ever you find yourself declaring emphatically and unequivocally that you will never do some one particular thing, chances are good that this is precisely what you will one day find yourself doing.

Peg Bracken

finding-yourself one-day may