106 Quotes by M.F.K. Fisher

France eats more conciously, more intelligently, than any other nation.

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...

I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war’s fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever-increasing enjoyment.

But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

One martini is just right. Two martinis are too many. Three martinis are never enough.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.

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.

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.