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Sobering Quotes (page 7)

He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented. Thomas Mann
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Write drunk; edit sober."
Write drunk; edit sober. Ernest Hemingway
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere. Henry Ward Beecher
Charles Dickens quote: "Don’t let your sober face elate you, however; you don’t know..."
Don’t let your sober face elate you, however; you don’t know what it may come to Charles Dickens
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact. Terry Prachett
Sherman Alexie quote: "In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto..."
In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly. Sherman Alexie
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"So easy that, to..."
Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober. Dorothy L. Sayers
The story is even Bill Wilson, a founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, couldn't overcome the sex monkey on his back, and spent his sober life cheating on his wife and filled with guilt. Chuck Palahniuk
Craig Ferguson quote: "It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?"
It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew? Craig Ferguson
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; whence proceeds sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from supersition; the light of experience, from arrogrance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of... Carl Sagan
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being. George Saunders
James Pinckney Miller quote: "This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a..."
This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say? James Pinckney Miller
James Pinckney Miller quote: "You'd be surprised how much fun you can have sober. When you..."
You'd be surprised how much fun you can have sober. When you get the hang of it. James Pinckney Miller
Herman Melville quote: "Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. Herman Melville
William Godwin quote: "Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and..."
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. William Godwin

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