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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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Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let…
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Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they…
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The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they…
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The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how…
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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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The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good…
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Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.
— James Harvey Robinson
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One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
— Helen Hayes
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I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don't know if I…
— Emma Roberts
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Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at…
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Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell…
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Good talk saves the food
— Proverb
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