Peg Bracken

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Peg Bracken, pseudonymous American writer -- author of The I Hate to Cook Book, The I Hate to Housekeep Book, Appendix to the I Hate to Cook Book, But I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World (about travel), I Try to Behave Myself (about etiquette), I Didn't Come Here to Argue (essays), and numerous household hints.

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• "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 including bruises, most of them satisfying, depending on the genes and the bank account and where the heart lies.
  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. Moreover, I can't give way to the urge to show off my collection to my friends. I can only talk about it, and they needn't listen."
  • Source:I Didn't Come Here to Argue, "The Sunrise Collector: What to Do till Your Horoscope Gets There")