“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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“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut!”
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
“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
“Yes, but the people would prefer John A. drunk to George Brown sober.”
Responding to a heckler. (from John A: The Man Who Made Us by Richard J. Gwyn).
Undated
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, "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.”
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Bui Arland
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
