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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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Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.
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Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
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I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.
— Lisa Bonet
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Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but…
— W.C. Fields
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It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a…
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As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance…
— Simon Newcomb
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It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water…
— Mehmet Oz
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...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
— Anne Frank
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