There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

M. F. K. Fisher · The Gastronomical Me (1943), foreword

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M. F. K. Fisher · An Alphabet for Gourmets (1949), A is for Dining Alone

It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.

M. F. K. Fisher · The Gastronomical Me (1943)

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Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.

Harry Burns · Billy Crystal's Harry in When Harry Met Sally... (1989) · Harry's thesis on the drive from Chicago to New York in 1977, which the rest of Nora Ephron's film sets out to disprove.

He died on the wings of victory, but he saw them and heard them beating.

Winston Churchill · Churchill on Roosevelt, who died a month before the German surrender.

'I don't want him,' said Rabbit. 'But it's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.'

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“There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.”

“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”

“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.”

“Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.”

“He died on the wings of victory, but he saw them and heard them beating.”

“'I don't want him,' said Rabbit. 'But it's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.'”