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M.F.K. Fisher has 70 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.
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For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.
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In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as…
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There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to…
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Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into…
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Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic…
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There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer…
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. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill…
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Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not…
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I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it…
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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 easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of…
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What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing…
— Charles Dickens
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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality,…
— Walter Savage Landor
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If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Physical separateness can never be overcome by electronics, but only by 'conviviality,' by 'living together' in the most literal physical sense. The…
— Hakim Bey
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We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.
— David Abram
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Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectfully preparing tea and partaking of it…
— James Norwood Pratt
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Of all the old festivals, however, that of Christmas awakens the strongest and most heartfelt associations. There is a tone of solemn…
— Washington Irving
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally…
— Walt Whitman
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig…
— Dorothy Parker
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Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all…
— Wendell Berry
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It has lately been drawn to your correspondent's attention that, at social gatherings, she is not the human magnet she would be.…
— Dorothy Parker
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