Dislike Quote by Atticus Lish

“He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and a decided…

— Jane Austen

“Everything about his character and manners was forcible and violent; there never was any moderation; many a day did he fast, many a year…

— James Boswell

“They loved him, or loved the thought of him, what they thought he was: a man who could easily have had a good life…

— Donal Ryan

“But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Is not he? I had him along for his books and potions, and kept him for his character. Profundities of disgruntled sentiments, injured spirits,…

— Michelle Franklin

“He had stopped drinking, but the need to be free had been just as great...”

— Stephen King

“Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society,…

— Herman Melville

“There were two types of drinkers: those who drank to enhance their personalities, and those who sought to rid themselves of something.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Henry knew better than to want freedom. The only life worth living was the unfree life, the life Schwartz had taught him, the life…

— Chad Harbach

“There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk. I knew a brother drowned himself in wine once. It was a poor vintage,…

— George R.R. Martin

“But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink, he recovered. Scarcely”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Thomas looked around and tried not to let his duty turn him bitter. These were good men, and he would not leave them behind.…

— Jessica Fortunato