"Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity."

-- Clifton Fadiman

#Mean Quotes #Liquor Quotes

“Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.”

Source : Michel Quoist (1963). “Meaning Success”
“Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.”
“Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others have moved in. With the need for power, where was he to go? So he chose to be a conductor. He is a wonderful musician, a wonderful intelligence. It's a pity there is no humanity there. Does he have sex? I think not. When men have no sex, they go after power in this big, obsessive way.”
“I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.”
“A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.”
“The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.”
“Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.”
“It could be worse... It could be raining”

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