M. F. K. Fisher Short Quotes

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France eats more consciously, more intelligently, than any other nation.

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Gastronomy is and always has been connected with its sister art of love.

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When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts.

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Since we must eat to live, we might as well do it with both grace and gusto.

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Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

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When the wolf is at the door one should invite him in and have him for dinner.

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A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet.

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I think we grieve forever, but that goes for love too, fortunately for us all.

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It should always be seen, the first time, with the eyes of childhood or of love.

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A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

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Living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.

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Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.

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For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.

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Hate seemed to crackle out of him in little flashes, like electricity in a cat's fur.

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Ostentatious dining has little dignity about it, although the combination is possible.

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There can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.

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And like you, I remain as always strikingly beautiful, even though nobody knows it but me.

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For me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.

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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

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After rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news.

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Old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.

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Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

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It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.

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But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

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We sink too easily into stupid and overfed sensuality, our bodies thickening even more quickly than our minds.

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Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat...

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In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

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Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations.

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A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.

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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

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