“I'd rather be thin than famous
but I'm fat
paste that in your broadway show”

— Jack Kerouac , book Mexico City Blues

Source: Mexico City Blues

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American writer 1922–1969

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

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“That show Biggest Loser is a dumb show. If I wanted to see fat people struggle with their weight, I'd go to my family reunion!”

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“Fat men get knocked over by buses no earlier, nor later, than thin men. And I, for one, have buried most of my thin friends.”

Robert Morley (1908–1992) English actor

Explaining why he never tried to lose weight.
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“Most of the Vogue girls are so thin, tremendously thin, because Miss Anna don't like fat people.”

André Leon Talley (1948–2022) American journalist

[United Press International, Vogue fat comment raises group's ire, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 2005-09-19, http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_375745.html, 2007-04-24]