“We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
“We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.”
Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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novelist, short story writer 1916–1965Related quotes
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