“It always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.”
Wajma, p. 228
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
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From a set of "rules for life" sent to publisher Charles Scribner IV; quoted in Scribner's memoir In the Company of Writers (New York: Scribner, 1991), p. 64 https://books.google.com/books?id=yYdHGtlgIsYC&pg=PA64&dq=hemingway+%22rules+for+life%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-zvyfgNDMAhUJ_mMKHU6zDrYQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=%20%22rules%20for%20life%22&f=false
Peter de Vries (1910–1993) American editor and novelist
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“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
“Yes, but the people would prefer John A. drunk to George Brown sober.”
John A. Macdonald (1815–1891) 1st Prime Minister of Canada
Responding to a heckler. (from John A: The Man Who Made Us by Richard J. Gwyn).
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Richard Burton (1925–1984) Welsh actor
In Mark Pollman Bottled Wisdom: Over 1,000 Spirited Quotations & Anecdotes http://books.google.com/books?id=fM3CO-2nW7sC&pg=PA146, Wildstone Media, 1 January 1998, p. 146,
“What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.”
Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980) English theatre critic and writer
Kenneth Tynan, "Greta Garbo," Sight and Sound (April 1954), republished in Profiles (Harper Collins, 1990, ISBN 0-06-096557-6), p. 79
“In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.”
Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
