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Eight of the best book quotes about eating
#1
“I thought that if I did not eat and drink then death would simply follow, but in practice I found that thirst becomes such a frantic obsession that it takes a greater resolve than mine to resist it.”
author
Christopher Priest
book
The Prestige
concepts
thoughts
eating
drinking
death
following
practice
obsession
resistance
reality
#2
“When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one.”
author
Larry McMurtry
book
Lonesome Dove
character
Gus
concepts
nature
pigs
rattlesnakes
eating
#3
“Today [...] eat whatever you want [...] If you wish, you may eat with both hands and both feet. So get in there and munch. Have a big munch-er-oo!”
author
Dr. Seuss
book
Happy Birthday to You!
characters
You
Birthday Bird
Smorgasbord
concepts
today
birthdays
hands
feet
eating
munching
#4
“I eat words! Delicious words!
I gobble the words that you make.
Words like rod taste like turds,
but billow tastes like cake.”
author
Bo Burnham
book
Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone
concepts
eating
words
deliciousness
taste
#5
“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food.”
author
Yuval Noah Harari
book
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
concepts
humans
differences
eating
chimpanzees
#6
“Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can’t seem to muster the behavior”
author
Carrie Fisher
book
Postcards from the Edge
concepts
failure
behavior
thinking
eating
#7
“That’s all I seem to do now. I have to work to keep you alive, to feed you. I haven’t smiled once since you were born. Go to sleep.”
author
Jhonen Vasquez
book
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut Quotes
concepts
eating
keeping alive
stay alive
work
sleeping
happiness
#8
“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like and do what you’d rather not.”
authors
Mark Twain
John C. Maxwell
book
Failing Forward: How to Make the Most of Your Mistakes
concepts
doing
eating
drinks
health
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