“If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat.”
Orson Scott Card book Ender in Exile
Source: Ender in Exile
“If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat.”
Orson Scott Card book Ender in Exile
Source: Ender in Exile
“The brain is a gland of unity: the brain is one with the body.”
Richard Bergland neuroscientist
The Fabric of Mind (1985)
“Beyond the brain, there is something that observes the brain itself.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.”
Part 2, Ch. 9
Mao II (1991)
“To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.”
Brendan Behan (1923–1964) Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright
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.
“the parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk”
Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer