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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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Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does…
— Gerald May
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Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty…
— Cesar Chavez
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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
— George Santayana
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Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
— Sophie Swetchine
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Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people.
— Ronald Reagan
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There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly…
— John C. Maxwell
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In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human…
— Norbert Wiener
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I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the…
— Bruce Campbell
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All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
— Blaise Pascal
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The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling…
— Lech Walesa
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Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to…
— Yvon Chouinard
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