old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving. M. F. K. Fisher More Quotes by M. F. K. Fisher More Quotes From M. F. K. Fisher It must not simply be taken for granted that a given set of ill-assorted people, for no other reason than because it is Christmas, will be joyful to be reunited and to break bread together. M. F. K. Fisher christmastakenpeople Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly through the ground. Once eaten in Paris, they never taste as good anywhere else. M. F. K. Fisher pale-yellowfoodsweet I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix. M. F. K. Fisher junkie I honestly believe that everything I know about the writing of non-fiction (or writing) could be engraved on the head of a pin with a garden hoe. M. F. K. Fisher gardenwritingbelieve The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own outrageous fortune and in the two weeks of his carefree youth find a clean smooth place to fix on, the years afterwards are full of stress, passion, and danger. M. F. K. Fisher oysterspassionstress Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine. M. F. K. Fisher oysterseggsyears In spite of my conviction that a group of deliberately assembled relatives can be one of the dullest, if not most dangerous, gatherings in the world, I am smugly foolhardly enough to have invited all my available family, more than once, to dine with me. M. F. K. Fisher groupsgatheringworld There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk. M. F. K. Fisher drunkwinebrokenbread
