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M. F. K. Fisher

M. F. K. Fisher Quotes

Total quotes: 1

M. F. K. Fisher

Birthname

Birthday: July 3, 1908

Death: June 22, 1992

Educated At: Occidental College

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Memoirist, Diarist, Author, Writer

Spouse: Dillwyn Parrish

Total quotes: 1

“I 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. Fisher, The Art of Eating

Tagged: Living With Depression, Chilling, Terrifying, Nameless, Living in the past

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