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M F K Fisher Quotes
A year from now you'll wish you started today
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Having you in my life made everything better
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken
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I meant to behave but there were too many other options
I told you I'll be ready in FIVE minutes, stop calling me every half hour
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What a beautiful world it would be if people had hearts like dogs
If cats could talk, they wouldn't
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I never make the same mistake twice. I make it five or six times, just to be sure






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It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it (M F K Fisher Quotes)
At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have an uncanny power over food (M F K Fisher Quotes)
Life is hard, we say. An oyster’s life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation (M F K Fisher Quotes)
Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy (M F K Fisher Quotes)
Hunger is more than a problem of belly and guts, and... the satisfying of it can and must and does nourish the spirit as well as the body (M F K Fisher Quotes)
Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations (M F K Fisher Quotes)
A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has never before been encountered in the kitchen (M F K Fisher Quotes)
For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books... finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria, with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams (M F K Fisher Quotes)
I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix (M F K Fisher Quotes)
When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him (M F K Fisher Quotes)
The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash (M F K Fisher Quotes)
A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer (M F K Fisher Quotes)
If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality (M F K Fisher Quotes)
There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love (M F K Fisher Quotes)
Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of other women as the sound of a shrill whine at table (M F K Fisher Quotes)
It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises (M F K Fisher Quotes)
In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone (M F K Fisher Quotes)
No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread (M F K Fisher Quotes)
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight (M F K Fisher Quotes)
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. (M F K Fisher Quotes)
. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people . . . dining in a good home. (M F K Fisher Quotes)
It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it. (M F K Fisher Quotes)
If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality. (M F K Fisher Quotes)
There’s a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk (M F K Fisher Quotes)
No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread. (M F K Fisher Quotes)
A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer. (M F K Fisher Quotes)
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. (M F K Fisher Quotes)
I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers (M F K Fisher Quotes)
For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough. (M F K Fisher Quotes)
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist (M F K Fisher Quotes)