Alice B. Toklas Quotes

#1. In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.

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#2. The French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

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#3. Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.

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#4. This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

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#5. Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

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#6. Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach either as individuals - it's mass propulsion still!

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#7. As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

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#8. I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve - and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon.

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#9. Experience is never at bargain price.

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#10. Godiva was tired and old and Gertrude Stein in spring bought a new car ...

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#11. Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

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#12. What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.

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#13. The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?

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#14. But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

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#15. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

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