As quoted in A Contemporary Reader: essays for today and tomorrow, Harry William Rudman, Irving Rosenthal, Ronald Press (1961), p. 334
Context: As regards drink, I can only say that in Dublin during the Depression when I was growing up, drunkenness was not regarded as a social disgrace. To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
“We can't get kicked out of McDonald's! This is like the DMZ of drunk eating.”
Tucker Max (1975) Internet personality; blogger; author
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Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.”
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
“Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.”
Part 2, Ch. 9
Mao II (1991)
“It is the brain that gets drunk and not the body itself.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“the parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk”
Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer
“Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
https://twitter.com/wise_chimp/status/1488946174321205253?s=21
“We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.”
John Dos Passos (1896–1970) novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, painter
