"A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would be in living in the midst of good cheer, in the country of truffles, partridges, truffled turkeys, and so forth. "Alas!" replied with a sigh the sad gastronomer, "can one really live at all in a country where there is no fresh sea-fish?""

-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#Country Quotes #Cheer Quotes #Food Quotes

“I also love a film by Ang Lee - "Lust, Caution."”
“You either believe women are people or you don't. It's that simple.”
“If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.”
“Hidden paths can't be walked without moving obstacles.”
“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.”

Source : "Another Kind of Life; Victorian Giants review - birth of the outsider" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2018.
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“There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.”
“I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.”

Source : Ted Simon (2007). “Jupiter's Travels”, p.194, Penguin UK

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