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> [“It's really fine that you found a good archivist to do the basically difficult and at times harrowing work of cleaning out old papers. I hope you keep her digging into all the old boxes as long as there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-f-k-fisher-2/it-s-really-fine-that-you-found-a-good-archivist-to-do-the-basically/)

[M.F.K. Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-f-k-fisher-2/)

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## More by M.F.K. Fisher

> [“It's really fine that you found a good archivist to do the basically difficult and at times harrowing work of cleaning out old papers.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-f-k-fisher-2/it-s-really-fine-that-you-found-a-good-archivist-to-do-the-basically/)

[M.F.K. Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-f-k-fisher-2/)

> [“Like most humans, I am hungry...our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-f-k-fisher-2/like-most-humans-i-am-hungry-our-three-basic-needs-for-food-and/)

[M.F.K. Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-f-k-fisher-2/)

> [“Perhaps they should feel this safe sand blow away so that their heads are uncovered for a time, so that they will have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-f-k-fisher-2/perhaps-they-should-feel-this-safe-sand-blow-away-so-that-their-heads/)

[M.F.K. Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-f-k-fisher-2/)

> [“(We loved Mother too, completely, but we were finding out, as Father was too, that it is good for parents and for children to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-f-k-fisher-2/we-loved-mother-too-completely-but-we-were-finding-out-as-father-was/)

[M.F.K. Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-f-k-fisher-2/)

> [“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-f-k-fisher-2/probably-one-of-the-most-private-things-in-the-world-is-an-egg-before/)

[M.F.K. Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-f-k-fisher-2/)

> [“Perhaps this war will make it simpler for us to go back to some of the old ways we knew before we came over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-f-k-fisher-2/perhaps-this-war-will-make-it-simpler-for-us-to-go-back-to-some-of/)

[M.F.K. Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-f-k-fisher-2/)

> [“There are very few men and women, I suspect, who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without losing forever some of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-f-k-fisher-2/there-are-very-few-men-and-women-i-suspect-who-cooked-and-marketed/)

[M.F.K. Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-f-k-fisher-2/)

> [“...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-f-k-fisher-2/after-rare-beef-and-wine-when-the-lobes-turn-red-was-the-time-to-ask/)

[M.F.K. Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-f-k-fisher-2/)

> [“I live with carpe diem engrave on my heart.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-f-k-fisher-2/i-live-with-carpe-diem-engrave-on-my-heart/)

[M.F.K. Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-f-k-fisher-2/)

> [“...it was one of the best meals we ever ate. Perhaps that is because it was the first conscious one, for me at least;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-f-k-fisher-2/it-was-one-of-the-best-meals-we-ever-ate-perhaps-that-is-because-it/)

[M.F.K. Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-f-k-fisher-2/)

> [“...but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-f-k-fisher-2/but-i-still-think-that-one-of-the-pleasantest-of-all-emotions-is-to/)

[M.F.K. Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-f-k-fisher-2/)

> [“It took me several years of such periods of being alone to learn how to care for myself, at least at table. I came…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-f-k-fisher-2/it-took-me-several-years-of-such-periods-of-being-alone-to-learn-how/)

[M.F.K. Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-f-k-fisher-2/)

> [“We sink too easily into stupid and overfed sensuality, our bodies thickening even more quickly than our minds.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-f-k-fisher-2/we-sink-too-easily-into-stupid-and-overfed-sensuality-our-bodies/)

[M.F.K. Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-f-k-fisher-2/)

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