# Quote — Pat Cadigan, Mindplayers

> If fasting really had anything to do with enlightenment then millions of people throughout the ages had died of the secret of life. And the secret of life was, in its entirety, that starvation hurt like a bastard.

- Author: [Pat Cadigan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan.md)
- Book: [Mindplayers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan/mindplayers.md)
- Page: 78
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pat_Cadigan#Mindplayers_(1987)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan/mindplayers/if-fasting-really

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> I remembered the sign in front of the cathedral:

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