"Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat."

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Source : Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

M. F. K. Fisher

#Secret Quotes #Likes Quotes #Persons Quotes

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“I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.”
“Don't shrink from natures brutal perfection. Take joy in it. Embrace it. Understand it and revel in it. Respect it's strength, it's wisdom, it's brutality and it's all-encompassing power. The highest law has always been, and shall be, nature; and the greatest wisdom forever lives in and through nature's eternal Fascism.”
“I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”
“Running is my solo time; working my muscles outside in fresh air is therapeutic.”
“If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels right, use it. If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels wrong, donâ€™t waste so much as a single second on it. It may be fine for someone else, but not for you.”
“There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties, isn't there? What will happen if we turn thirty and we're not 'ready?' You don't feel entirely settled in any aspect of your life, even if you are on paper.”
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