"A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking"

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Source : Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.55, Random House

Anne Enright

#Talking Quotes #Doe Quotes #Drink Quotes

“I'm generally interested in what people believe and what works for them, what gives them hope, what inspires them, no matter what it is.”

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“It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing.”

Source : Ray Comfort (2011). “The Defender's Guide for Life's Toughest Questions”, p.163, New Leaf Publishing Group
“I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.”
“The only thing that can change Japan is a change in government.”
“The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.”
“There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.”

Source : John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.72, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
“The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused. [Lat., Apparet divom numen, sedesque quietae; Quas neque concutiunt ventei, nec nubila nimbeis. Aspergunt, neque nex acri concreta pruina Cana cadens violat; semper sine nubibus aether Integer, et large diffuso lumine ridet.]”
“Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.”

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