"When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts."

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Source : Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

M. F. K. Fisher

#Men Quotes #Beast Quotes

“The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“Always play for the worst case scenario..If it is the best you'll win anyway”
“Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it...”
“You do not know what is in you - an inexhaustible fountain of ideas.”
“Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I can read and write and play the flute and harp. Why should I change to please some man? If he doesnâ€™t like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.”
“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
“A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.”

Source : 1977 In the NewYork Times, 2 Oct.

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