The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
FRAN LEBOWITZ
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Fran LebowitzFran Lebowitz The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.
John DeweyJohn Dewey I’m so insecure, I think, that I’ll die before I drink.
Olivia RodrigoOlivia Rodrigo Love could be labeled poison and we’d drink it anyway.
AtticusAtticus Thinking of you is a poison I drink often.
AtticusAtticus Sure she would drink & digress with you but i undressed your soul. He sank in the shallow end.
Charlie GilbertCharlie Gilbert