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“the whole thing ends in capital letters and exclamation points: “WET BRAIN. INSTITUTIONS. DEATH!!!”
― The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath
― The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath
“I'm recovering from a nervous crack-up which visited me last summer and which has given me a merry chase. I never realized nerves were so odd, but they are. They are the oddest part of the body, no exception. Doctors weren't much help, but I found that old phonograph records are miraculous. If you ever bust up from nerves, take frequent shower baths, drink dry sherry in small amounts, spend most of your time with hand tools at a bench, and play old records till there is no wax left in the grooves.”
― Letters of E.B. White
― Letters of E.B. White
“Sometimes I feel like growing up is slowly peeling back these layers of lies.”
― Patron Saints of Nothing
― Patron Saints of Nothing
“He has a set of nerves on like a sack of fucking snakes.”
― Beatlebone
― Beatlebone
“have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances.”
― Washington: A Life
― Washington: A Life
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