“There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.”
Peg Bracken (1918–2007) American writer
But I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World! The pleasures and perils of an unseasoned traveler (1973)
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.”
Peg Bracken (1918–2007) American writer
But I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World! The pleasures and perils of an unseasoned traveler (1973)
Joanne K. Rowling (1965) British novelist, author of the Harry Potter series
from Pansy Hermiones, 2006
2010s
Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor
"Kubrick on Barry Lyndon : An interview with Michel Ciment" (1982) http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/interview.bl.html
James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author
"Bible Stories for Adults, No. 20: The Tower" p. 76 (originally published in Author’s Choice Monthly #8: Swatting at the Cosmos)
Short fiction, Bible Stories for Adults (1996)
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Enshrined
“There are worse things than being mad.”
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
This appears not to be a Kerouac quote. It has not been found in any of Kerouac's published work.
Misattributed
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“But there were worse things than being left.”
Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight
Source: Lady Midnight