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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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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
— Aneurin Bevan
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so…
— Winston Churchill
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests…
— Leonard Cohen
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I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree…
— Hiram Maxim
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One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
— Zig Ziglar
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When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
— James Boswell
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
— Samuel Johnson
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Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
— John of the Cross
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Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister…
— Ambrose Bierce
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