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This is the most fantabulous pecan tart on goddess's green earth. I am not tempted with any pecan-y dessert anywhere else. Have it at La Boulangerie in Fresno, CA. No dessert had at a well-regarded Michelin star joint in Paris comes close. Bonus: It's egg-free. No stinky-ness.

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Anyone here who works on a leadership team of a hotel chain with a presence in the Middle East?

"You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish." -Anita Brookner

wants more walnuts, fewer wingnuts; more plushness, less roughness; higher thread counts, fewer dust bunnies; more toffee, less coffee; more ghee, less tea; more babycakes, fewer tastycakes; more Elvis, less Petty; more acapella, less gospel; and more Salome, less Nietzche.

"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals." -Benjamin Franklin

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“Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.” - Mary Karr

wishes she could work for an enterprise in which a golden retriever was the CEO, a collie was the CFO, a lioness was the Director of HR, a giraffe was in-house counsel, and that she herself was given a team of ducks to manage.

is in the mood for some mouth-altering paan and mind-blowing chai.

wishes there was a "Take Your Stuffed Animals to Work" day.

has observed two types of New Yorkers lately: People who wear their bling and people whose bling wears them. There are no blingless around here, but for the tourists.

wants you to claim it before it claims you.

"Don't be afraid to show that you are enjoying yourself. Enjoyment is what you are there for, and not to be happy in a ballroom is to admit that you are a failure. Believe me, there is nothing either distinguished or meritorious in being bored." -Don'ts for Dancers, 1925

"Genius is the ability to receive from the universe." - I Ching

has evidence that trashy is as trashy does; she also has evidence that from time to time, priceless is as trashy does.

"Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond." -Hunter S. Thompson

"After all, revolutions must include dancing and sex, poetry and good food, friends and fun. Otherwise, we won't have them when the revolution is over. Never forget: The means are the ends." ~Gloria Steinem

"You are remembered for the rules you break." ~ Douglas MacArthur

"Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew.." ~Emily Dickinson (from "I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed")

had a dream she was swimming laps in an Olympic sized vat of Rommegrot. A sweet dream indeed!

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it." -Clarence Darrow

Add 2 heaping spoonfuls of the included spoon to some boiling non-dairy milk of your choice if you need to pull an all-nighter. Wow. You can use sugar or swerve to sweeten this scrumptious chai. #chai

has reduced her New Year’s resolutions to just this: to whirl in the moment, and whirl with the moment. To quote the incredible Gwendolyn Brooks: "She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves. "

"New Year resolution: express myself like a cat pukes. Anytime, anywhere without fear of consequences." -Helen Ellis

This is the best restaurant masala chai in the United States. Make a stop at Masala Express while in Merced, California. Total road trip fuel. Included with the buffet option.

wants to start a band or a social club called The Indelibles

The best kulfi I have tasted outside of India, within the United States. Available in many South Asian grocery stores. Get the kaju and kesar (cashews and saffron) one.

does not want to be driven to distraction---she wants to be chauffeured or ferried there, thank you very much.

“Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.” ― Henry Rollins

doesn't like forks in the road, and doesn't understand why a certain poet did. Why can't there be spoons or sporks in the road?

"America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland." -Tennessee Williams

hearts New York City, because it's one of the few places on this planet that she can shamelessly, unabashedly, unapologetically, indulgently, and hungrily relax.

prefers her diamonds to be out of the rough.

"Of course you should be full of yourself. Who else would you be full of?" -Jesse Elder

“It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.” -Florynce Kennedy

"Spendin' money like water. Drinkin' life like wine. Not livin' like I oughter, But - ain't my life mine?" -Langston Hughes

has met many people lately who have the aura of election upon them, and many of them are rather Wilde.

“There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.” ― Robert Benchley

"I don't know how she does it" is Southern Lady code for: "I don't want to do all that. Who in her right mind wants to do all that?" -Helen Ellis

"Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain." -Billie Holiday

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." -George Eliot

"Be with someone who ruins your lipstick- not your mascara." -Eloisa James

"It is so unpatriotic for Republicans to say we can't spend money we don't have. Nothing is more American than spending money you don't have." -Elizabeth Wurtzel