Eleanor Lerman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
I don't like soccer. I think it makes you soft. And by the way, you telling me it's the biggest whatever in the World, look, they drink tea everywhere too; they're pussies, you understand? I want some coffee.
I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.
I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music.
Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them.
Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

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