Emmanuel des Essarts quotes
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“Make an amiable intermediary of an egg, which comes between the various parts of food to bring about difficult reconciliations.”
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“Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.”
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“The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.”
-- Emmanuel des Essarts
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“It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics,”
Source : Adam Foulds (2009). “The Quickening Maze”, p.17, Random House
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Source : Aidan Chambers (2004). “Postcards from No Man's Land”
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“I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.”
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“It's difficult to get to know a Swede. But once you do, you're in.”
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“There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.”
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“After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.”
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