Climax Quote by Alice B. Toklas

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

Alice B. Toklas

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

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

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The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine. And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as…

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I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering…

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I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the…

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