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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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These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.
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All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
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Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.
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Why on earth should we be at each other's throats? Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such…
— J. G. Farrell
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It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was…
— Fred F. Fielding
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When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which…
— C L R James
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The future of the world depends on the full restoration of the Sacred Feminine in all its tenderness, passion, divine ferocity, and…
— Andrew Harvey
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The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this:…
— Christina Stead
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From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral…
— David Hume
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It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest,…
— H.G. Wells
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