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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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Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred…
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It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent…
— H. L. Mencken
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The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible…
— H. L. Mencken
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You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so…
— George Plimpton
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God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.
— Elbert Hubbard
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(While accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award) I've been thinking about why you have to get famous to get an award for…
— Frank Sinatra
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To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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But For 4500 I Will John Doe You, Yah Moms Wont Kno U.
— Camron
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There he go that's John Doe. Never mind that's just Kells with that heat, no LeBron though.
— Machine Gun Kelly
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I like to write paper mail...nobody does that anymore...with my pen pals. John Doe from the band X played my dad on…
— Hilarie Burton
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