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old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.
M. F. K. Fisher
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M. F. K. Fisher
Age: 83 †
Born: 1908
Born: July 3
Died: 1992
Died: June 22
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M.F.K. Fisher
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher
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But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.
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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.
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For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.
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Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.
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There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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Salad is roughage and a French idea.
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I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the timelessness that only the passing of Time itself can give to objects both inside and outside the spirit is a continuing reassurance.
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... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.
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Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat.
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... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.
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... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably they need it rare, grilled, heavily salted, for that way it is most easily digested, and most quickly turned into the glandular whip their tired adrenals cry for.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist
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