I like old people when they have aged well. M. F. K. Fisher More Quotes by M. F. K. Fisher More Quotes From M. F. K. Fisher 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. M. F. K. Fisher time sweet people Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions. M. F. K. Fisher angelic function digestion There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse. M. F. K. Fisher abuse chocolate ideas I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying...nameless... M. F. K. Fisher men past thinking There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk. M. F. K. Fisher drunk wine food The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread. M. F. K. Fisher yoga exercise food Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters. M. F. K. Fisher family memorable food A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom. M. F. K. Fisher real self food At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have an uncanny power over food. M. F. K. Fisher uncanny witch people But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence. M. F. K. Fisher convalescence refuse weak I notice that as I get rid of the protective covering of the middle years, I am more openly amused and incautious and less careful socially, and that all this makes for increasingly pleasant contacts with the world. M. F. K. Fisher covering world years ... 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. M. F. K. Fisher tired grief prayer One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words. M. F. K. Fisher taught-us hot war 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. M. F. K. Fisher family death children 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 heart appreciation friendship Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation. M. F. K. Fisher oysters shapes life ... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans. M. F. K. Fisher sight doe travel It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté. M. F. K. Fisher innocence differences people France eats more conciously, more intelligently, than any other nation. M. F. K. Fisher france nations On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell. M. F. K. Fisher tired food hands
