Fiction Quote by Washington Irving

“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible,…

— Simona Panova

“…In this way that he sought to control the very passage of his life, deftly and without forethought, yet precisely and with enormous care.…

— Jesse Ball

“He suffered from indigestion now nearly every afternoon in his life, but as he lacked introspection he projected the associated discomfort upon the world.…

— H.G. Wells

“He carried the deep, intuitive understanding of the power of food to connect people, knew that food was not simply a device for entertaining…

— Michael Ruhlman

“He’s so powerful. Who knows maybe he’s advanced past eating”

— Priya Ardis

“the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic life he…

— Leo Tolstoy

“What he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal in him.”

— Herman Melville

“He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so viscious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion…

— Mary Shelley

“In this condition one enriches everything out of one's own abundance: what one sees, what one desires, one sees swollen, pressing, strong, over laden…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great. That…

— Robert Farrar Capon

“If anything, the spirit that drove him now was fiercer, but there was no denying the diminishing powers of his body. He”

— Donna Leon