William Oldys Quotes
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I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.
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There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.
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Be curious, not judgmental.
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I was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change.
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They who drink beer will think beer.
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.
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I must have a drink of breakfast.
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It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!
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You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't.
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I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok.
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Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.
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The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
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The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.
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Fix yourself something to drink," she said. "I don't have any Mr. Pepper." "You mean Dr. Pepper?" "For the love of God!" She exploded. "People expect everything from a psychic! 'Doctor,' 'mister,' I was close enough. I didn't call it 'Mrs. Salt,' did I?
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Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.
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If you were to draw it up, I would say the best way to win the game is to move the ball ourselves and keep them off the field.
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There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.
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If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.
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Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink as I.
