“If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.”
Matt Haig (1975) British writer
Source: The Humans
“Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.”
Part 2, Ch. 9
Mao II (1991)
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