Jesse Browner quotes

“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 Browner

Source : 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 Browner

Source : Jesse Browner (2004). “The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

#Dark Quotes #Safety Quotes #Needs Quotes

“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

#Crush Quotes #Dream Quotes #Fear Quotes

“You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.”

“I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.”

“I sometimes skip meals when I travel.”

“Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.”

“My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.”

“The biggest adjustment from the minors was learning to spend $45 in meal money.”

“The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.”

“The good guest is almost invisible, enjoying him or herself, communing with fellow guests, and, most of all, enjoying the generous hospitality of the hosts.”

“Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.”

“We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.”