"Most bad books get that way because their……" — Stephen Vizinczey
"Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders."
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21 Quotes by Stephen Vizinczey
Stephen Vizinczey has 21 quotes on this site.
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We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said…
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Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the…
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You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.
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Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently…
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Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
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The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
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The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality:…
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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
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Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you…
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Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.
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The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware…
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Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked…
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More Alcoholic Quotes
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Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.
— Kevin Bacon
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When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any…
— Glenn Beck
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[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.
— Auguste Piccard
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Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing…
— George Saintsbury
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Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you…
— Mitch Hedberg
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My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could…
— Betty Ford
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I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
— Betty Ford
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No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single…
— William Lyon Mackenzie
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So popular is beer, the world's best-selling alcoholic drink, that it is often taken for granted. Yet scientific analysis shows…
— Michael Jackson
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The reason I'm not an alcoholic is I don't like to drink in front of the kids . . .…
— Phyllis Diller
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My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is…
— Louis Pasteur
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To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity…
— Deepak Chopra
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