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“I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.”
― Dean Martin

“Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.”
― Harry Crews

“That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.”
― Harry Crews, A Feast of Snakes

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
― Mae West

“Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.”
― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

“Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.”
― Herman Hesse

“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
― Anais Nin

“I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ”
― Anais Nin

“From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.”
― Anais Nin

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
― Tom Robbins

“Who knows how to make love stay?

1. Tell love you are going to Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if loves stays, it can have half. It will stay.

2. Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt hair and use them to paint a moustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay.

3. Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at."

When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt? I accepted the idea that an omniscient God had cast me in his own image and that he watched over me and guided me from one place to the next. The virgin birth, the resurrection, and the countless miracles -my heart expanded to encompass all the wonders and possibilities of the universe.

A bell, though, that's fucked up.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Hate is a lack of imagination.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell

“she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant”
― Dorothy Allison

“Take it easy, but take it.”
― Woody Guthrie

“I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.”
― Truman Capote

“Are you with women who only bleed monthly on their cycles?”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“Live or die, but don't poison everything.”
― Anne Sexton

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.”
― Thomas McGuane