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“First we eat, then we do everything else.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

“When shall we live if not now?”
― M.F.K. Fisher

“There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

“Like most humans, I am hungry...our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it...”
― M.F.K. Fisher, The Gastronomical Me

“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

“What I wrote was mostly unintelligible, except for one bit about a suicidal dog. The first line went, alliteratively enough, Don’t do it, dog.”
― Mary Karr, Lit

“For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say "I'm going to sleep." And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had been thinking all the time, while I was asleep, of what I had just been reading, but my thoughts had run into a channel of their own, until I myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a”
― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, The Little Virtues

“As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, The Little Virtues

“It seemed to me that I had discovered how people in books should be—funny and at the same time sad.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, The Little Virtues

“This is incoherent drivel.”
― J. Peterman

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
― Walt Whitman