A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share
I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share
“Architecture without pain, art looked at in undiluted pleasure, enjoyment without anxiety, compunction, heartache: there is no beggar woman in the church door, no… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share
I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share
The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share
“A devastating, a traumatic defeat, [to Germany] and the Danes might well have fallen into a Treaty of Versailles mentality. Mysteriously, they did not.… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share
public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share
“War and the threat of war begin when all is not well at home. Countries that solve their own problems are no problem to… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share
All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share
A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share
One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share
It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share
“Guillermo was lonely and serviceable and always rushed in to do the things one wanted in a way one did not want them done.” — Sybille Bedford Copy Share
