July 3, 2013 Quote Unquote Happy Birthday, Mary Frances By Sadie Stein Image via Gourmet “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. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it … and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied … and it is all one.” —M. F. K. Fisher, The Art of Eating
June 21, 2013 Quote Unquote Tricks of the Trade By Sadie Stein “Generally one would like to avoid tricking oneself.” —Ian McEwan, the Art of Fiction No. 173
June 19, 2013 Quote Unquote To the Letter By Sadie Stein “More than kisses, letters mingle souls.”* —John Donne *Not those of first cousins, except in the platonic sense.
June 13, 2013 Quote Unquote Fighting Words By Sadie Stein Thoor Ballylee, Co. Galway. Once owned by W.B. Yeats “Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.” —W. B. Yeats
June 10, 2013 Quote Unquote Fortifications By Sadie Stein “[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader’s own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement―not incitement.” —Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover: A Romance
June 10, 2013 Quote Unquote Don’t Be So Sure By Sadie Stein “I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?” —Maurice Sendak, 2004