"To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs."

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Source : Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.16, Vintage

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Responsible Quotes

“All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.”
“Just as we are what we eat physically, we are also what we consume spiritually.”
“I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.”
“The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some consolation to realise that there is no literary world in Birmingham or Los Angeles either. I have heard there is one in Montreal, but I don't believe it. The literary world is in London and New York, the only cities big enough to sustain magazines which can afford to reject copy.”
“If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.”
“When my mother did fittings for her clients, I was hiding, looking at these beautiful ladies try on these fantastic clothes. I was dreaming as a small child to try these clothes on myself.”
“It was nice to wear a suit at a young age, it's different from a school uniform.”
“Your money, your singleness, marriage, talent and time, they were loaned to you to show the world that Christ is Divine”

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