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“Pearls. Take, like an oyster, your irritations, your pain. Use these to create your masterpiece.”

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“Oyster, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails!”

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Describing Ostend oysters: "small and rich, looking like little ears enfolded in shells, and melting between the palate and the tongue like salted sweets.”

Book:Bel-Ami

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“Imagine a world where belonging is the foundation of life… the air is filled with laughter, the streets with trust, and the homes with love.”

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Book:Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction

Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction

“Charlotte sighed inwardly. She knew her mother was serious when she started referring to shellfish. What did that mean, anyway? What's so great about the world being your oyster? Does that mean it's really hard to open, and when you do, you have something slimy and gross on the inside?”

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Book:The Shadow Thieves

Source: The Shadow Thieves

“Oysters speaking doesn't give a pearl. (Les huîtres qui parlent - N'ont pas de perle)”

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Author:Charles de Leusse

“Oysters are the usual opening to a winter breakfast. Indeed, they are almost indispensable.”

Author:Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière

“She’s a tough clam to pry open. I’ve a feeling, though, once we do, we’ll find a pearl.” “Pearls form in oysters.” “Oysters, clams...” He waved dismissively. “It’s all seafood. You know what I meant.”

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Book:Night Study

Source: Night Study

“What could any oyster want to climb a hill for? To climb a hill must necessarily be fatiguing and annoying exercise for an oyster. The most natural conclusion would be that the oysters climbed up there to look at the scenery. Yet when one comes to reflect upon the nature of an oyster, it seems plain that he does not care for scenery. An oyster has no taste for such things; he cares nothing for the beautiful. An oyster is of a retiring disposition, and not lively - not even cheerful above the average, and never enterprising.”

Book:The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress

Source: The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress

“He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating of oysters.”

Author:James VI & I

“An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful before all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? the exterior is not persuasive.”

Author:Henry Ward Beecher