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Rita Mae Brown 38
Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist 1944Related quotes
Variant: I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows. But now the damned things have learned to swim, and now decency and good behavior weary me.
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“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
Source: Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
“What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.”
Source: A Step of Faith
“In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learned to swim”
“I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.”
Quote in a letter to Ella Wolfe, "Wednesday 13," 1938, as cited in Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (1983) ISBN 0-06-091127-1 , p. 197. In a footnote (p.467), Herrera writes that Kahlo had heard this joke from her friend, the poet José Frías.
1925 - 1945
Variant: I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.