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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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All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!
— William Shakespeare
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I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.
— Gabriela Sabatini
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We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse,…
— Chief Seattle
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I've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do, like perfumes, lines of clothing and this, that…
— Gloria Estefan
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Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an…
— Epicurus
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Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its…
— Zhuangzi
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Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given…
— Paul Cezanne
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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 intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.
— Jacqueline du Pre
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What I'm doing, with my image, I have my perfumes. I've had that for almost 20 years, and I have like 14,…
— Gabriela Sabatini
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Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening…
— Charles Baudelaire
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