“Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference. They would like to jump down into their stomachs and digest the food and shovel the shit out.”
Hauser and O'Brien
Naked Lunch (1959)
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“A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.”

“Contemplation is to knowledge, what digestion is to food – the way to get life out of it.”
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 86.

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“Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.”

“When no food is given to the ear,
Then let a little be given to the stomach.”
Verse XLII.2
Tirukkural