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I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.

M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992), U.S. culinary writer and autobiographer. The Book of California Wine, Preface (1984).

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