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“It took me several years of such periods of being alone to learn how to care for myself, at least at table. I came to believe that since nobody else dared feed me as I wished to be fed, I must do it myself, and with as much aplomb as I could muster. Enough of hit-and-miss suppers of tinned soup and boxed biscuits and an occasional egg just because I had failed once more to rate an invitation!”
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“There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.”
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“...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.”
― The Art of Eating
― The Art of Eating
“But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.”
― The Art of Eating
― The Art of Eating
“Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place.”
― The Art of Eating
― The Art of Eating
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