"I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions."

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Source : Leslie Jamison (2010). “The Gin Closet”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

Leslie Jamison

#Drunk Quotes #Chocolate Quotes #Melting Quotes

“The devilâ€™s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?”
“Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a federal housing project, and we were not allowed to have a dog or cats. The only pets I could have were turtles. So, I had an entire toy castle filled with dime-store turtles. I gave them all names, and since they were living in a toy castle, I decided they were all knights and kingsand I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom. So, Game of Thrones, actually began with turtles. I decided later to recast it with actual human beings.”
“I consider myself a very lucky man indeed.”
“Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.”
“No amount of tools can help a bad product. You have to remain genuine in your product development innovation and quality.”
“My father did not bother that I play not a classical music. He always congratulated me for my development in music, I mean in any music but, he hang on to continue training at the Academy of Music... however, I never mentioned to my teachers that I trained myself at weekends in clubs.”
“I learned what education really is: the penetrating deeper and rising higher into life, as well as making continually wider explorations; the rounding of the whole human being out of its nebulous elements into form, as planets and suns are rounded, until they give out safe and steady light. This makes the process a infinite one, not possible to be completed at any school.”
“When life has gone into overtime it's easy to take liberties,”

Source : Jonas Jonasson (2012). “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared”, p.8, Hachette UK

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