“I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to the Chekhov family (April 25, 1887)
Letters
Source: Hunted
“I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to the Chekhov family (April 25, 1887)
Letters
“Barricaded vision,
Garbed herself in sighs;
Ridiculed the birthmarks
Of the butterflies.”
Nathalia Crane (1913–1998) American writer
"The Vestal" <!-- p. 15 -->
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Context: p>Once a pallid Vestal
Doubted truth in blue;
Listed red in ruin,
Harried every hue;Barricaded vision,
Garbed herself in sighs;
Ridiculed the birthmarks
Of the butterflies.</p
“Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.”
Michael Chabon book The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Source: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host
Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
“A man above thirty cannot enter into the wild visions of an enthusiastic girl.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822