"Too few of us, perhaps, feel that breaking of bread, the sharing of salt, the common dipping into one bowl, mean more than satisfaction of a need. We make such primal things as casual as tunes heard over a radio, forgetting the mystery and strength in both."

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Source : Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

M. F. K. Fisher

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“Social media doesnâ€™t create negativity, it uncovers it.”
“sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul”
“Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.”
“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
“To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.”
“Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.”
“[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.”
“My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.”

Source : "Kemp Won't Enter 1996 Primaries" by Dan Balz, www.washingtonpost.com. January 31, 1995.

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