Sybille Bedford quotes
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“public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.”
-- Sybille BedfordSource : Sybille Bedford (2017). “A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error”, p.280, New York Review of Books
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“All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.”
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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.”
-- Sybille BedfordSource : Sybille Bedford (2017). “A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error”, p.143, New York Review of Books
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“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 BedfordSource : Sybille Bedford (2017). “A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error”, p.280, New York Review of Books
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“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.”
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“All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.”
-- Sybille BedfordSource : Sybille Bedford (2016). “A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey”, p.81, New York Review of Books
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“One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are not “for goodâ€; one thinks everything is a rehearsal - to be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.”
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“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 BedfordSource : Sybille Bedford (1990). “As it was: pleasures, landscapes and justice”, Trafalgar Square
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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 BedfordSource : Sybille Bedford (1986). “A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey”, Plume Books
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“I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.”
-- Sybille Bedford
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