"People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry."

-- M. F. K. Fisher

#Drinking Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time.”
“Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what they have in common.”
“What is God? God is the great life that fills the universe; it is the principle of life aswell.”
“It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people in general withtheir vague and changing aspirations for equality, for justice, for some kind of gentler brotherhood and peace, which has kept that balance of forces we call our system of government in equilibrium.”
“I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.”
“-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.”
“Resentment always hurts you more than the person you resent.”
“I invented the historical spy novel.”

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