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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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A special pathway to citizenship is off the table... when I talk to members of the group in the Senate, they're saying…
— Raul Labrador
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Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules…
— Lev Grossman
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I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in…
— David Lloyd George
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At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the…
— Louise Bourgeois
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The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought…
— Paul Stanley
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I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I…
— Langston Hughes
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Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.
— Ernest Hemingway
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I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.
— Pablo Neruda
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Vlad twisted his wrist, pinching his fingers together, spinning the bronze coin on the table. When it fell, he picked it up…
— Heather Brewer
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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".
— Nina Simone
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In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.
— M.F.K. Fisher
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