"All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor."

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Source : Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

M. F. K. Fisher

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“Just 'cause you pour syrup on something doesnt make it pancakes”
“In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.”
“I am worried about climate change. In one respect, I may be more worried than other people. I am worried because I have very little confidence that we know what is causing it....One of my fears is that we could reduce carbon emissions by some drastic amount, only to discover that-oops-it turns out that climate change is being caused by something else.”
“Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.”
“The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are ***** and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.”
“Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.”

Source : Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Isla and the Happily Ever After”, p.170, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“I don't want to grow up, I want to grow down”
“But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.”

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