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“A man had to have something, he reasoned, to lose his mind in, at least once a day.”
― The Hunt for Red October
― The Hunt for Red October
“Control! Control, Mac,” he said. “There’s plenty of time.” He lifted his coat from the back of a chair. “All afternoon,” he added. “Time to go out and plenty of time to get back.”
― The Lost Weekend
― The Lost Weekend
“Remember it. Remember that I must want it badly. Remember that this is the only thing left to want, in this world wide and deep.”
― The Galloping Hour: French Poems
― The Galloping Hour: French Poems
“The alcoholic, to get liquor, will do everything that the drug-addict will do to get drugs, everything but one: and that is murder. Cut off from drink, he’ll lie to get it, beg, plead, wheedle, borrow, steal, rob—all the crimes in the catalogue. But he won’t kill for it. That’s the difference between the drunk and the drug-addict. But the only one.”
― The Lost Weekend
― The Lost Weekend
“Your eyes begin in my eyes which no longer see you. Begin in my voice which no longer speaks to you. Die out in my hands which no longer touch you. Your eyes are inscribed in my flesh. No one can bear to see me now. Sinister tattoo. I do the rain, I do the sun. For want of your eyes in my eyes.”
― The Galloping Hour: French Poems
― The Galloping Hour: French Poems
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