"Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is improved by the multiples of those with whom it is shared."

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Source : Jesse Browner (2004). “The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Jesse Browner

#Meals Quotes #Hospitality Quotes #Eating Quotes

“I really write emotionally so whatever mood I'm in, or if a chord hits me a certain way that's what I'll go off of.”
“While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution â€“ so one theory goes â€“ this faculty soon enough became a seditious agent working against us â€¦ we need to hamper our consciousness for all we are worth or it will impose upon us a too clear vision of what we do not want to see â€¦ Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are â€“ hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones”
“I want you to know there's nothing... nothing to be afraid of. On one side, there's life. And on the other...there's life, too.”
“To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.”

Source : Roger Deakin (2009). “Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.”
“I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.”
“Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you need to do is show up and pretend to be happy for them." "That's one of the few things I won't have to pretend, Plutarch," I tell him.”
“According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.”

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