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Sybille Bedford Quotes

In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one’s got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit Picture Quote #1

I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest bread, butter, olive oil, a generous spirit, lively appetites and attention to what we are eating Picture Quote #1

All wealth is relative; and so is its absence Picture Quote #1

Public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good Picture Quote #1

A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time Picture Quote #1

All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle Picture Quote #1

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It would seem that in history it’s never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one Picture Quote #1

The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go? Picture Quote #1

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In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one’s got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit (Sybille Bedford Quotes) I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest bread, butter, olive oil, a generous spirit, lively appetites and attention to what we are eating. (Sybille Bedford Quotes) All wealth is relative; and so is its absence (Sybille Bedford Quotes) Public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good (Sybille Bedford Quotes) A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time (Sybille Bedford Quotes) All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle (Sybille Bedford Quotes) It would seem that in history it’s never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one (Sybille Bedford Quotes) The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go? (Sybille Bedford Quotes)