"There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference between the two is more marked than nationality or belief: it is an opposite species altogether. It is against the unwritten laws of congeniality for them to mix. For me, a man who does not drink is distinctly indecent ..."

-- Caitlin Thomas

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“If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.”

Source : Asne Seierstad (2009). “A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal”, p.154, Hachette UK
“I was a freshman in college in 1980, the year that Reagan was elected, and I went around badgering people to vote for him.”
“Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again.”
“And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.”
“A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.”

Source : Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales”, p.249, tredition
“To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.”
“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.”
“The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.”

Source : Andrew DELBANCO (2009). “The Real American Dream”, p.114, Harvard University Press

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