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'And perhaps it’s fortunate I’ve had some whiskey since alcohol is an aphrodisiac too. One must never forget either that alcohol is a food. How can a man be expected to perform his marital duties without food?'

"What is going to happen to it—what is going to happen to our hearts? Love is the only thing which gives meaning to our poor ways on earth: not precisely a discovery, I am afraid. You will think I am mad, but this is how I drink too, as if I were taking an eternal sacrament."

GENIUS!

(Several mescals later)

'Ah, if only you had given me something in memory to hate you for so finally no kind thought of you would ever touch me in this terrible place where I am! But instead you sent me those letters.'

'And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell. It is not Mexico of course but in the heart'

'And he wen't on eating his marmalade. In books men knelt to women, and it would be in moonlight. Not at breakfast, not like this.'

''Most physicians have been trained how to get people on these drugs - but not off.'' still holds true, and as long as the monetary interests of physicians, psychologists and the medical companies align - it will continue to hold true...

Nasty business, shameless - and the methods and arguments they used, holy.... Doubtless the meme ''(((They))) cry out in pain as (((they))) strike you'' seems to hold some validity.

Evelyn Waugh once responded to someone calling him "nasty" by saying; "You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic".

’Foolishness comes from education’

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time.

Sometimes I feel the past and the present and the future pressing so hard upon me I can’t hold it all in. That’s why I drink, Charles.

“But you can't believe things because they're a lovely idea."
"But I do. That's how I believe.''

“I’m not going to have you get mixed up with my family. They’re so madly charming. All my life they’ve been taking things away from me. If they once got hold of you with their charm, they’d make you their friend, not mine, and I won’t let them.”