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“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.” John Green, Paper Towns
“I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“It's true that a drinker numbs his senses, it's true that he briefly escapes and rests, but he'll return from the delusion, finds everything to be unchanged, has not become wiser, has gathered no enlightenment,—has not risen several steps.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.” Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“I just hope that one day—preferably when we're both blind drunk—we can talk about it.” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

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