“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.” — G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
“Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is that, when there is a choice, the milder drink is always the better — not merely the safer but the better. The second is that no really enlightened drinker ever takes a drink at a time when he has any work to do. There is, of course, more to it than this; but these are sufficient for the beginner, and even the virtuoso never outgrows them.” — H.L. Mencken, “How to Drink Like a Gentleman“
“Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they’re not absurd.” — China Miéville (via potetoisgod)
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“Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.” — Life of Pi; Yann Martel
“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.” — Life of Pi; Yann Martel
“Animals in the wild are, in practice, free neither in space nor in time, nor in their personal relations.” — Life of Pi; Yann Martel
“I have heard nearly as much nonsense about zoos as I have about God and religion.” — Life of Pi; Yann Martel
“And is it right, Butterfly
They like you better framed and dried”
— Butterfly; Tori Amos