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M. F. K. Fisher Quotes

M. F. K. Fisher quotes about good

American Writer July 3, 1908 – June 22, 1992

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(We loved Mother too, completely, but we were finding out, as Father was too, that it is good for parents and for children to be alone now and then with one another...the man alone or the woman, to sound new notes in the mysterious music of parenthood and childhood.)That night I not only saw my Father for the first time as a person. I saw the golden hills and the live oaks as clearly as I have ever seen them since; and I saw the dimples in my little sister's fat hands in a way that still... M. F. K. Fisher
There are very few men and women, I suspect, who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without losing forever some of the nonchalant extravagance of the Twenties. They will feel, until their final days on earth, a kind of culinary caution: butter, no matter how unlimited, is a precious substance not lightly to be wasted; meats, too, and eggs, and all the far-brought spices of the world, take on a new significance, having once been so rare. And that is good, for there can be no... M. F. K. Fisher
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight...[Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour ofmeditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread. M. F. K. Fisher
It's really fine that you found a good archivist to do the basically difficult and at times harrowing work of cleaning out old papers. I hope you keep her digging into all the old boxes as long as there is ONE left. M. F. K. Fisher
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 their own hungers. M. F. K. Fisher
M. F. K. Fisher quote: "Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and..."
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. M. F. K. Fisher
You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is likefeathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive! M. F. K. Fisher
M. F. K. Fisher quote: "It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how..."
It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it. M. F. K. Fisher

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