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“In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.”

“She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.”

Knows Differences Food Cooking Culinary Immense Midnight Oysters

Author:Juvenal

“On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell.”

World Hands Too Much Conditions Food Tired Shells Shameful Oysters Much Love

Book:Consider the Oyster

Source: Consider the Oyster

“The food of thy soul is light and space; feed it then on light and space. But the food of thy body is champagne and oysters; feed it then on champagne and oysters; and so shall it merit a joyful resurrection, if there is any to be.”

Ifs Soul Body Light Space Food Merit Resurrection Joyful Champagne Oysters

Book:Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition

Source: Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition

“This is not that, and that is certainly not this, and at the same time an oyster stew is not stewed, and although they are made of the same things and even cooked almost the same way, an oyster soup should never be called a stew, nor stew soup.”

Way Should Made Food Soup Oysters Stew

Book:Consider the Oyster

Source: Consider the Oyster

“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”

Men Firsts Food Eating Meals Culinary Boldness Oysters Eating Food Funny Food Food And Eating Tasty Great Food Cooking And Eating Polite Conversation

Author:Jonathan Swift

“I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.”

“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure”

Source: Kitchen Confidential

“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.”

“OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.”

Men Giving Sometimes Given Poor Food Civilization Shells Oysters Shellfish

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“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.”

Ifs Men Age Enjoy Sea Food Intuition Shock Love Life Weed Splits Breeze Oysters Freshness Shiver Piercings

Author:Eleanor Clark