M. F. K. Fisher Quotes - Page 5

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• I like old people when they have aged well.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  People, Old People, Wells

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• It must not simply be taken for granted that a given set of ill-assorted people, for no other reason than because it is Christmas, will be joyful to be reunited and to break bread together.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Christmas, Taken, People

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• 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

  Food, Cooking, Kitchen

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Differences, People, Innocence

  M.F.K. Fisher (1992). “Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• In spite of my conviction that a group of deliberately assembled relatives can be one of the dullest, if not most dangerous, gatherings in the world, I am smugly foolhardly enough to have invited all my available family, more than once, to dine with me.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Groups, Gathering, World

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.641, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Travel, Sight, Doe

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.420, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably they need it rare, grilled, heavily salted, for that way it is most easily digested, and most quickly turned into the glandular whip their tired adrenals cry for.

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  Prayer, Grief, Tired

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• One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  War, Taught Us, Hot

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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