Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair … - M. F. K. Fisher

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In. . . silence we find a new energy and a real unity. God's energy becomes our, allowing us to perform things well.

M. F. K. Fisher

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.

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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.

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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.

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old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.

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

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