#fr

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#another #because #bit #burned #character

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#acquisition #best #books #friends #good

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#difference #experience #feel #forty #french

Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#because #could #france #him #i

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#frail #gertrude #gertrude stein #hemingway #married

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#friend #gave #i #make #one friend

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#anything #battle #cheerful #confer #effort

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#bellow #friend #my friend #never #saul

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else. ↗

— Julia Child

#dry #duck #else #first #french

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power. ↗

— Julia Child

#anything #baking #cake #cakes #egg