“I know only one person who ever crossed the ocean without feeling it, either spiritually or physically…. he went from Oklahoma to France and back again … without ever getting off dry land. He remembers several places I remember too, and several French words, but he says firmly, “We must of went different ways. I don’t rightly recollect no water, ever.”
M.F.K. Fisher
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“… living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.”
M.F.K. Fisher
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“[Bachelors’] approach to gastronomy is basically sexual, since few of them under seventy-nine will bother to produce a good meal unless it is for a pretty woman.”
M.F.K. Fisher
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“…I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better to invite them after their new passion has settled, has solidified into a quieter reciprocity of emotions. (It is also a waste of good food, to serve it to new lovers.)”
M.F.K. Fisher
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“…I never thought of anything but a long full life with my love, but a heavy foreboding hit me about two years into this planned bliss, when he said firmly that we must never go back to the fishing village where we had spent our first Christmas. And a cruel mixture of disbelief and sadness filled me as I came to understand how thoroughly and firmly he stood by his conviction, that if people know real happiness anywhere, they must never expect to find it there again…. So that year we went to Nuremberg, and the next year Strasbourg and and and, but we never returned to any place we had been before, because once, according to his private calendar, we had been there. And in a few more years we parted. You might say that we ran out of places.”
M.F.K. Fisher
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“I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war’s fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever-increasing enjoyment.”
M.F.K. Fisher
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“Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one’s fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.”
M.F.K. Fisher
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“Why is it that people refuse, or are unwilling, to go back to a place where once they have been happy? If you ask them, they willsay that they do not want to spoil a beautiful memory, or that nothing can ever be the same (a wonderful thing can only happen once!)…. Actually I think they may feel afraid that they will be disillusioned, if indeed they have had to convince themselves that a privately dull or ugly event was indeed a glamourous one. Or they may suspect that they are less attractive than they wanted to be, or that the other people are.”
M.F.K. Fisher
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“…I never thought of anything but a long full life with my love, but a heavy foreboding hit me about two years into this plannedbliss, when he said firmly that we must never go back to the fishing village where we had spent our first Christmas. And a cruel mixture of disbelief and sadness filled me as I came to understand how thoroughly and firmly he stood by his conviction, that if people know real happiness anywhere, they must never expect to find it there again…. So that year we went to Nuremberg, and the next year Strasbourg and and and, but we never returned to any place we had been before, because once, according to his private calendar, we had been there. And in a few more years we parted. You might say that we ran out of places.”
M.F.K. Fisher
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Happiness
