Jigsaw Quotes

“A biographer is an artist under oath.”
― Sybille Bedford, Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education

“My interest in how people lived was nourished quite literally by the food I shared with them.”
― Sybille Bedford, Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education

“What was being put over (by Musso[lini] & Co.) was, she was never in doubt, based on trickery and false values, sanctified aggression, pandered to false pride; it made ignorant youth feel important, gave foolish people spurious hopes – it was dangerous stuff.”
― Sybille Bedford, Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education