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Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. – Kingsley Amis

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics. – Kingsley Amis

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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic. – Kingsley Amis

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Diets and Dieting
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Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. – Proverb

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Diets and Dieting

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. – Charles Buck

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Diets and Dieting

Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Diets and Dieting

The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy. – Jean Baudrillard

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Diets and Dieting

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