"It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot believe that there exists a single coherent human being who will not confess, at least to himself, that once or twice he has stuffed himself to bursting point on anything from quail financiere to flapjacks, for no other reason than the beastlike satisfaction of his belly."

-- M. F. K. Fisher

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“I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.”
“But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.”
“Our mantra was simplicity.”
“He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with him on the bed, holding his hand...This was what he yearned to capture on film: these rare moments where the world seemed unified, coherent, everything contained in a single fleeting image. A spareness that held beauty and hope and motion - a kind of silvery poetry, just as the body was poetry in blood and flesh and bone.”
“A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious.”
“That seems to me the greatest American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.”
“When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.”
“You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.”

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