Quotes by Rosecrans Baldwin

As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation.

— Rosecrans Baldwin

Wisdom

My father-in-law has ear hair like a wolverine. It fans out from the auricles, wafting from the ridge lines like cilia, like gray feathered plumage.

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Wisdom

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.

— Rosecrans Baldwin

Love

The great thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween.

— Rosecrans Baldwin

Life

Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.

— Rosecrans Baldwin

Wisdom

Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice.

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Wisdom

Frankly, it's depressing, each night sleeping in someone else's home. I miss having a roof to my name. Our situation isn't an 'All in the Family' cliche, but it's still easy to see reality in plain terms: I live with my in-laws, and I can't say when that will change.

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Wisdom

I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us.

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Happiness

In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, and there was a whiff of homicide. We'd travel by foot in the dark for miles, collecting candy, watching out for adults who seemed too eager to give us treats.

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Wisdom

My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It's not a gradual fading. The person is losing so much of their humanity as they're dying. Losing your memories, you lose so much of who you are as a person.

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Life

To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there.

— Rosecrans Baldwin

Life

About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp.

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Wisdom

Americans love popcorn, and their love doesn't quit.

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Love

If I see a roll of Bubble Tape, a bag of Haribo Gold-Bears or a pouch of green-apple Big League Chew, I'm eleven again.

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Wisdom

My confession: I listen to great music very badly.

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Wisdom

My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head that if you wanted to be the most urbane, living-life-to-the-fullest kind of person, Paris was the place to be.

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Hope

My ideal vacation isn't about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don't speak the language, go hiking, then plop down in a sunny square, have drinks, read a book, and see what happens.

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Wisdom

When I was a kid, we didn't eat in restaurants much, but a good report card meant my sister or I could choose anyplace in town for a dinner out, and I always picked Benny's, a dive bar near the train station, because they had the best nachos around.

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Wisdom

Of course, there's no reason that Paris should have decent Mexican food. It's a silly expectation - there's a Mexican population in Paris, but they're not exactly traveling there from across the border. Paris also doesn't do Peruvian all that well, either.

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Wisdom

American-French relations, their pitch and volume, have always been influenced by the media.

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Wisdom

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

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Wisdom

By and large, the Mexican food in Paris is horrible.

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Wisdom

For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.

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Life

Heads of France lead from a palace, and traditionally they retire to a cloud.

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Wisdom