Eleanor Clark Quotes

• 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.

  Eleanor Clark

  Weed, Food, Love Life

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• The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.

  Eleanor Clark

  Fresh Start, Illusion

  Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

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• Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without.

  Eleanor Clark

  Luxury, Doubt, Remains

  Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

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• Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.

  Eleanor Clark

  Abortion, Criminals, Birth Control

  Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

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• Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

  Eleanor Clark

  Rome, Impossible, Century

  Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”

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• You are eating the sea, that's it, only the sensation of a gulp of sea water has been wafted out of it by some sorcery, and you are on the verge of remembering you don't know what, mermaids or the sudden smell of
  kelp on the ebb tide or a poem you read once, something connected
  with the flavor of life itself.

  Eleanor Clark

  Food, Smell, Sea

  Eleanor Clark (2014). “The Oysters of Locmariaquer”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.

  Eleanor Clark

  Party, Rome, Giving

  Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”

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• Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.

  Eleanor Clark

  Dog, Cat, Stupidest

  Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”

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• How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.

  Eleanor Clark

  Confusion, Racing, Style

  Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

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• Shame can be self-indulgence too.

  Eleanor Clark

  Self, Shame, Self Indulgence

  Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

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• Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.

  Eleanor Clark

  Home, Rome, Cities

  Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”

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• The Roman form of serenade is to race a motorcycle motor under the girl's window, but mufflers are not common in any situation; the only things as dearly loved as a good noise are breakneck speed and eye-splitting lights, preferably neon - all expressions of well-being, like a huge belly-laugh.

  Eleanor Clark

  Girl, Eye, Expression

  Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”

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• Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines.

  Eleanor Clark

  Color, Oysters, Sea

  Eleanor Clark (2014). “The Oysters of Locmariaquer”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.

  Eleanor Clark

  Artist, Firsts, Sides

  Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

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• Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

  Eleanor Clark

  Love Life, Oysters, Piercings

  1964 The Oysters of Locmariaquer, ch.1.

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• I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.

  Eleanor Clark

  Writing, Thinking, Enlargement

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• Rome is everybody's memory.

  Eleanor Clark

  Memories, Rome

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