M. F. K. Fisher Quotes

Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

M. F. K. Fisher

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• Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'

  

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• I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.

  

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• When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

  

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• A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.

  

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• Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

  

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• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  

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• I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.

  

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• A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

  

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• When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

  

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• From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

  

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• In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

  

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• I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.

  

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• It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

  

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• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  

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• If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

  

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• We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.

  

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• I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.

  

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• The figures... are not supposed to reveal anything... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.

  

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• The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

  

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• Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

  

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• Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Art
  • Amazing