Jessica Fechtor Quotes

#1. Meaning is not what happens, but what you do with what happens.

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#2. Food - like art, like music - brings people together, it's true. It begins, though, with a private experience, a single person stirred, moved, and wanting company in that altered stated. So we say, "You have to taste this." We say, "Please, take a bite.

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#3. Being sick is like walking around with a microscope strapped to your face at all times with your own body squished beneath the slide. You don't look away, at first because you can't - you're too sick - and then because you're afraid that if you do, you might miss a symptom or a sign and die.

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#4. To trust in your own aliveness, in your own ability to sustain and be sustained - there are times when there is no greater act of defiance.

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#5. The so-called small stuff actually matters very much.

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#6. When I visit someplace new my favorite thing to do is eat...and walk, preferable to a place where I can eat some more.

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