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.
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 good”;… - Sybille Bedford
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 good”;…
- Sybille Bedford
All wealth is relative; and so is its absence. - Sybille Bedford
All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.
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 brea… - Sybille Bedford
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 brea…
public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good. - Sybille Bedford
public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.
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,… - Sybille Bedford
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,…
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 Bedford
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?
I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand. - Sybille Bedford
I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.
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 se… - Sybille Bedford
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 se…
All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle. - Sybille Bedford
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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