Indigestion was designed by God to impose morality on…

“Indigestion was designed by God to impose morality on stomachs.”

— Victor Hugo

You can't have a novel without real, believable people, and once you get into either too theoretical a novel or too philosophical a novel,…

— Julian Barnes

“The whole of life did not consist in going to bed with a woman, he thought, returning to Scott and Balzac, to the English…

— Virginia Woolf

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort…

— Manuel Puig

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

— Victor Hugo

To escape the power of the unknown, to prove to yourself that you don't believe in it, you accept its spells. Like an avowed…

— Umberto Eco

Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake.

— Kristin Cashore

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The…

— Jean Rhys

There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface…

— Ivan Turgenev

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.

— Lloyd Alexander

“Cultural indigestion, I tell you, the gripe in the bowels of your spirit.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

— Khalil Gibran

I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.

— Mason Cooley