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Sybille Bedford

Sybille Bedford Books

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Sybille Bedford was an accomplished British writer known for her distinctive literary style and profound insight. Her works spanned various genres including novels, biographies, and travel literature, with her most famous work being the autobiographical novel 'The Battle of the Sexes'. Born on March 16, 1911, she passed away on February 17, 2006.

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“My interest in how people lived was nourished quite literally by the food I shared with them.”

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“public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.”

Doe Matter Opinion Public Opinion

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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.”

War Seems Thousand Hundred Revenge Teeth

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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?”

Humans Made Society Harder Errors Miles Compass Human Society

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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.”

Writing Hands Materials Cooking Raw Materials

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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.”

Long Spirit Attention Honest Honesty Eating Tables Oil Bread Generosity Generous Culinary Appetite Lively Olives Detest Olive Oil Generous Spirit

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“All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.”

Wealth Absence Relative

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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 good”; 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.”

Thinking Knows Feels Humans Doe Young Conditions One Day Performances Odd Ads Human Condition Curtains Earnest Rehearsal Odd Things Young Ones

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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.”

World Way Want Sea Rocks Ego Engagement Hydra

Book:As it was: pleasures, landscapes and justice

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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.”

Food Eggs Miraculous Truffles

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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.”

Humans Lasts Interesting Fit Travel Clothes Europe England Relation France Pleasant Human Relations

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About the Author

Born: March 16, 1911
Died: February 17, 2006
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 11

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