"Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle."

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Source : Griffith Edwards (2013). “Alcohol: The World's Favorite Drug”, p.1, Macmillan

Griffith Edwards

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“Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can't have one with out the other. They coincide.”
“A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.”
“I was never a cool person; in fact, cool people have always made fun of me. Thatâ€™s why I loved [the Robert Cormier YA novel] The Chocolate War - because the cool kids (not the establishment) were the villains. I totally identified with that.”
“I guess I sort of just feel like I am lucky.”
“A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.”
“sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.”
“The characters I tend to play are a little more interesting than the standard heroes. Romantic leads can be a little more straightforward, I guess. But it just seems to be the parts I get, I don't know what that says about me. I enjoy interesting characters and interesting people, I suppose.”

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“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.”

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