Drunkards Autobiography Quotes & Sayings

The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action. — Allan Bloom

It has seemed to me that if I had the genius to found the jet propulsion field in the US, and found a multimillion dollar corporation and a world renowned research laboratory, then I should also be able to apply this genius in the magical field. — George Pendle

When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails. — Robert Kagan

How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war — John Green

In the Alco Ward a dispute had broken out over plagiarism. Incidentally, when I arrived there for the first time I did not have the slightest notion that I was crossing the threshold of a creative writing program, that I was entering a community of people of the pen, of writers who were incessantly creating their alcoholic autobiographies, recording their innermost feeling in cheap sixty-page notebooks that were called emotional journals, laboriously assembling their drunkard's confessions. — Jerzy Pilch

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race. — Hunter S. Thompson

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

How I snuffed that Tartar air!
how I spurned that turnpike earth!
that common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish heels and hoofs; and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records. — Herman Melville

What if there is no such thing as other people's wrongness ... ? — Jay Woodman

Always saying, "I tried" when you didn't really try at all. — Paulo Coelho

To Pussy
(1981-1995) — Martin McDonagh

But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better. — Marisha Pessl