Eleanor Clark Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Eleanor Clark