Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Peter De Vries

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Topic

Gluttony Food Coping mechanisms

Speaker

Mrs. Thicknesse

Author

Peter De Vries

Source

Comfort Me With Apples

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

From

United States

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Citation

De Vries, Peter. Comfort Me with Apples. Little, Brown & Company, 1956.

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Current Citation

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