Celia Brayfield quotes

Celia Brayfield quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“We have always learned about life by dramatising our questions.”
-- Celia Brayfield

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“Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring.”
-- Celia Brayfield

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“This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.”
“Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.”
“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”
“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan
“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.”
“When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.”
“Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is”
“My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.”
“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.”
“Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge...”

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