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Imagine a species of frog that can gossip back and forth with frogs in other trees – except that in practice the language is as dead as Cornish because none of them can ever find anybody else to talk to.
“Drunkenness was a communal and personal pleasure at once, a miserable state only to those not drinking. Sobriety to him was a cruel attack of conscience masking itself as awareness. If sober people were so aware, how come they only spoke truth when drunk? Give him the romance of a drunkard over the indignation of a teetotaler any day.”
― John Crow's Devil
― John Crow's Devil
“People would say that if the Rum Preacher was all that stood between Heaven and Hell, then everybody had better stock up on asbestos.”
― John Crow's Devil
― John Crow's Devil
“Work’s just like school, except this time it’s a life sentence. No parole.”
― The Secret To Not Drowning
― The Secret To Not Drowning
“The Cockney has one oath, and one oath only, the most indecent in the language, which he uses on any and every occasion. Far different is the luminous and varied Western swearing, which runs to blasphemy rather than indecency. And after all, since men will swear, I think I prefer blasphemy to indecency; there is an audacity about it, an adventurousness and defiance that is better than sheer filthiness.”
― The People of the Abyss
― The People of the Abyss
“Don’t read women’s magazines. They’re bad for your stomach.”
― Hold Your Own
― Hold Your Own
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