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“If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.”
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Eleanor Clark
#Weed Quotes
#Love Life Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.”
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Eleanor Clark
Source : Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”
#Dog Quotes
#Cat Quotes
#Stupidest Quotes
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“Shame can be self-indulgence too.”
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Eleanor Clark
Source : Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins
#Self Quotes
#Shame Quotes
#Self Indulgence Quotes
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“How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.”
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Eleanor Clark
Source : Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins
#Confusion Quotes
#Racing Quotes
#Style Quotes
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“Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn ...”
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Eleanor Clark
Source : Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”
#Rome Quotes
#Impossible Quotes
#Century Quotes
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“Rome is everybody's memory ...”
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Eleanor Clark
#Memories Quotes
#Rome Quotes
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“Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.”
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Eleanor Clark
Source : Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”
#Home Quotes
#Rome Quotes
#Cities Quotes
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“The Roman form of serenade is to race a motorcycle motor under the girl's window, but mufflers are not common in any situation; the only things as dearly loved as a good noise are breakneck speed and eye-splitting lights, preferably neon - all expressions of well-being, like a huge belly-laugh.”
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Eleanor Clark
Source : Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”
#Girl Quotes
#Eye Quotes
#Light Quotes
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“It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window ...”
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Eleanor Clark
Source : Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”
#Party Quotes
#Rome Quotes
#Giving Quotes
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“Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines ...”
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Eleanor Clark
Source : Eleanor Clark (2014). “The Oysters of Locmariaquer”, p.6, Harper Collins
#Color Quotes
#Oysters Quotes
#Sea Quotes
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“Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without.”
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Eleanor Clark
Source : Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins
#Luxury Quotes
#Doubt Quotes
#Remains Quotes
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“The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.”
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Eleanor Clark
Source : Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins
#Fresh Start Quotes
#Illusion Quotes
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“Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.”
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Eleanor Clark
Source : Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins
#Abortion Quotes
#Criminals Quotes
#Birth Control Quotes
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“To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.”
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Eleanor Clark
Source : Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins
#Artist Quotes
#Firsts Quotes
#Sides Quotes
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“Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.”
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Eleanor Clark
Source : 1964 The Oysters of Locmariaquer, ch.1.
#Love Life Quotes
#Oysters Quotes
#Enjoy Quotes
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“You are eating the sea, that's it, only the sensation of a gulp of sea water has been wafted out of it by some sorcery, and you are on the verge of remembering you don't know what, mermaids or the sudden smell of kelp on the ebb tide or a poem you read once, something connected with the flavor of life itself...”
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Eleanor Clark
Source : Eleanor Clark (2014). “The Oysters of Locmariaquer”, p.6, Harper Collins
#Sea Quotes
#Smell Quotes
#Water Quotes
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“I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.”
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Eleanor Clark
#Writing Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Enlargement Quotes
