"Like most women, I remember my first drink in tender minutiae."

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Source : Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.12, Penguin

Koren Zailckas

#Drinking Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Remember Quotes

“I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.”

Source : Michael Faraday (1852). “On the Physical Character of the Lines of Magnetic Force: With a Plate”, p.408
“Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? Thatâ€˜s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because ifâ€” as the war ends, or at least starts to endâ€” if, at this time, the history of the war is written as us going there to topple the regime of a bad man when that frankly isnâ€˜t why were told that we were going thereâ€” Arenâ€˜t we still at risk of making this horrific mistake again? And, arenâ€˜t we letting the people who foisted the WMD idea on us, not many years ago, arenâ€˜t we sort of letting them get away with it?”

Source : "The Rachel Maddow Show", February 27, 2009.
“I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.”
“the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.”
“Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous; it may never be possible; it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.”
“I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'”
“Las Vegas is still socially sanctioned deviance. Its brand is just more comfortable to more Americans than it used to be.”

Source : Hal Rothman (2015). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century”, p.20, Routledge
“What relationship can you have with yourself if you systematically hand your genitals over to someone else?”

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