Jesse Browner quotes
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“Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is improved by the multiples of those with whom it is shared.”
-- Jesse BrownerSource : Jesse Browner (2004). “The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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“We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness in the dark. We use our need as the blind use a walking stick, to determine the safety of every forward step.”
-- Jesse BrownerSource : Jesse Browner (2004). “The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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“There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps into our dreams. We feel empty and seek meaning. We feel empty and seek meaning. We yearn and know not what we yearn for. There is a black hole at the center of our understanding that engulfs and crushes our every attempt to explore it. Something is missing.”
-- Jesse Browner
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“Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.”
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“The biggest adjustment from the minors was learning to spend $45 in meal money.”
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“The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.”
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“We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.”
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