![]() “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. “First we eat, then we do everything else.” ![]() “On cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” The quirks of the German language add to the difficulty. What an idea Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm. “I have been on diet for two weeks, and all I’ve lost is two weeks.” Franz Kafka, whose most famous work is The Metamorphosis, is famously difficult to translate. So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. “So long as you have food in the mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.” Kafka played food off against this big, heavy chunk of a father who filled his face, and as the father got bigger and heavier, Kafka himself got thinner and thinner. “I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food” “Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.” “Ask not what you can do for your country. ![]() ![]() But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories, Random House LLC 377 Copy quote I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea. I usually solve problems by letting them devour me. I have been asked, prodded, smirked at and made fun of about my passion and glutton for food… and over the years, I have repeated these food quotes as my way of smirking back, of course at times only in my head! Enjoy these quotes as you indulge in the “Season of Food”. Inspirational, Fashion, Truth Franz Kafka (1995). May these Franz Kafka Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams. ![]()
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