We sink too easily into stupid and overfed sensuality, our bodies thickening even more quickly than our minds.
M.F.K. FisherDining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts.
M.F.K. FisherTag: food
I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died a small hideous death if I saw even one person throw a casual glance at me.
M.F.K. FisherTag: youth
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.
M.F.K. FisherI think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best....
M.F.K. FisherPerhaps they should feel this safe sand blow away so that their heads are uncovered for a time, so that they will have to taste not only the solid honesty of my red borscht, but the new flavor of the changing world.
M.F.K. FisherI 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. FisherTag: sadness depression mood
...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.
M.F.K. FisherTag: life detachment
But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.
M.F.K. FisherThere is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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