“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald411
American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940Related quotes
“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
Peter de Vries (1910–1993) American editor and novelist
Source: Reuben, Reuben
Richard Burton (1925–1984) Welsh actor
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,
Paul Rey (1992) Swedish singer
Source: Song Tear Me Down, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwIHlq_zSaw
“It always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.”
Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns
Wajma, p. 228
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
“This whole week, I’ve been reflecting on this idea of grace.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2015, Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney (June 2015)
Context: This whole week, I’ve been reflecting on this idea of grace. The grace of the families who lost loved ones. The grace that Reverend Pinckney would preach about in his sermons. The grace described in one of my favorite hymnals -- the one we all know: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I’m found; was blind but now I see. According to the Christian tradition, grace is not earned. Grace is not merited. It’s not something we deserve. Rather, grace is the free and benevolent favor of God as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowal of blessings.
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bites
