Lucius Beebe quotes
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“A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost.”
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“I admire most of all The Renaissance Man, and if it can be said without pretentiousness, I like to think of myself as one, at least in some small measure. Not a Michelangelo, mark you, but perhaps a poor man's Cellini or a road company Cosimo de' Medici ... the Renaissance Man did a number of things, many of them well, a few beautifully. He was no damned specialist.”
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“High blood pressure, cheeriness at breakfast, a mellowing political philosophy, and an inability to drink more than half a bottle of proof spirits at cocktail time without falling over the fire irons all suggest dark wings hovering overhead and the impending midnight croak of the raven.”
-- Lucius BeebeSource : Lucius Morris Beebe (1966). “The Provocative Pen of Lucius Beebe, Esq”
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“George Jessel’s newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town’s paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka.”
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“What is subversive today, will almost certainly be patriotic tomorrow.”
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“New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.”
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“George Jessel’s newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town’s paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka.”
-- Lucius Beebe
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“I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.”
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Source : Mark Kurlansky (2013). “Choice Cuts”, p.26, Random House
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Source : "Bobby Flay on Good Fast Food and Bad Restaurant Ideas". Interview with Andrew Del-Colle, www.menshealth.com. March 11, 2011.
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