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Alice B. Toklas Biography

Alice Babette Toklas (April 30, 1877 – March 7, 1967) was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century, and the life partner of American writer Gertrude Stein.

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Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

Free, Mind, Mind Free, Roam, Sometimes, Surmise

Experience is never at bargain price.

Bargain, Bargains, Experience, Price

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

France, French, Naturally, Paint, Play, Writing

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

Culmination, Gently, Menu, Menus, Should

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.

Mean, Noon, Precise, Twelve, Usage, Wedding

Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.

Aging, Dawn, Rapid, Rapids, Slowly

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

Delight, Ineffable, Kind, Kinds, Letters, Time

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

Cookbook, Cooking, Food, Writing

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

Food, Nutrition, Want

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 gathering the vegetables one has grown.

Baby, Beautiful, Mother, Nothing, Wonder

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

Baby, Beautiful, Gathering, Mother, Radishes

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

Duck, Ducks, Food, Gander, Guinea, Turkeys

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

Gardening, Gathering, Nothing, Thrilling, Vegetables

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!

Art, Culture, Leisurely, Luxury, Sex

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