"There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting."
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"Turns out we've been eating the wrong things...since the dawn of civilisation"
"I do like Guinness, I have to say, because you feel like you're eating something."
"The strong were always eating the weak."
"...Everyone had to eat, but eating people wasn't polite."
"In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder."
"I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening."
"This verse made me realize that I've divorced an entire aspect of my life from God: eating"
"It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating."