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“I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Thinking about it,I know why that is: I didn't have a drink last night, and I have no desire to have one now. I am interested, for the first time in ages, in something other than my own misery. I have purpose. Or at least, I have a distraction.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I tell you, to be drunk on alcohol is disgraceful, but to be drunk on water is noble and ecstatic.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi