8 Great Authors On Eating

By Food & Wine
Updated July 02, 2015
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If you're looking for food for your thoughts or thoughts for your food, look no further. Great writers throughout history have gushed about good food. So whether you're counting down till your lunch break, cooking dinner, or eating all the chocolate, you're in good company. Get ready for some serious I-know-that-feels.
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Mark Twain

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Yes, you can eat Cheetos with Nutella. Mark Twain said it was okay.

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Nora Ephron

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Eat all the things, all the time, forever.

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Kurt Vonnegut

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There's nothing worse than an amazing meal with someone who just doesn't get how amazing that meal is.

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Cicero

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The great orator reminds us that burgers are an amazing thing in life, but they shouldn't be the only amazing thing in your life.

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Voltaire

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Sure, he died way before low-carb low-fat diets. But Voltaire got how sweet a sin ice cream really is.

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Aldous Huxley

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The philosopher's way of saying food makes a hungry person less of a drag.

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Oscar Wilde

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History's most fey boxer-cum-playwright gets how start planning dinner immediately after you finish lunch.

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Virginia Woolf

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Translation: Food makes everything awesome.

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