M.F.K. Fisher

Quotes

• “Inwardly, though, she was blown empty by a giant breath, and while they stood waiting for Mr. Henshaw to tie up the Clar...”
• “Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really...”
• “You can still live with grace and wisdom thanks partly to the many people who write about how to do it and perhaps talk ...”
• “She resolved, at forty-some, that since she herself must die, she would do it as gracefully as possible, as free as poss...”
• “Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability t...”
• “I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain a...”
• “Like most humans, I am hungry...our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entw...”
• “It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a cert...”
• “All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out th...”
• “put Rachel facing the door, in a faint subtle effort to make her know that if he had only had enough money and had manag...”
• “Perhaps they should feel this safe sand blow away so that their heads are uncovered for a time, so that they will have t...”
• “I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world,...”
• “our dispassionate acceptance of attrition...[can] be matched by a full use of everything that has ever happened in all t...”
• “If I were rich, I would buy him a new black suit. ... If I had next week's allowance and had not spent this week's on th...”
• “I cannot count the good people I know who, to my mind, would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of t...”
• “You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is likefeathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for yo...”
• “...having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat...”
• “I let myself exist mainly through my children... [but] I could not even guess at the lives my children led.”
• “Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.”
• “A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.”
• “There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.”
• “First we eat, then we do everything else.”