"Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than……" — M.F.K. Fisher
"Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak."
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68 Quotes by M.F.K. Fisher
M.F.K. Fisher has 68 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard…
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Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more…
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Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied…
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There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is…
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. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or…
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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.…
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I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to,…
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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…
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To the artist He is the one altogether lovely, and to the educator He is the master teacher. To the…
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The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have…
— Unknown Author
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Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.
— Unknown Author
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Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by…
— John Flavel
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For many, love is a two-sided coin. It can strengthen or stifle, expand or enfeeble, perfect or pauperize. When love…
— Colleen Houck
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We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who…
— Danah Zohar
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The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
— Iris Murdoch
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Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
— Peter Ustinov
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Widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and relieved.
— Victor Robinson
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The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when…
— Mark Twain
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Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal -…
— Meghan O'Rourke
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For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.
— Earl A Grollman
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