| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 3422 |
| QUOTATION: | Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Kingsley Amis (b. 1922), British novelist. One Fat Englishman, ch. 3 (1963). Roger Micheldene, “a shortish fat Englishman of forty,” musing over a particularly heavy lunch. For the probable inspiration of this, see Connolly on obesity. |
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