#sorrows

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Hitch: making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,' as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would have savored that, as well.) Of course, watching the clock for the start-time is probably a bad sign, but here are some simple pieces of advice for the young. Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's a junk cure. Drink when you are in a good mood. Cheap booze is a false economy. It's not true that you shouldn't drink alone: these can be the happiest glasses you ever drain. Hangovers are another bad sign, and you should not expect to be believed if you take refuge in saying you can't properly remember last night. (If you really don't remember, that's an even worse sign.) Avoid all narcotics: these make you more boring rather than less and are not designed—as are the grape and the grain—to enliven company. Be careful about up-grading too far to single malt Scotch: when you are voyaging in rough countries it won't be easily available. Never even think about driving a car if you have taken a drop. It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it.


Christopher Hitchens


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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.


Sophocles


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Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.


Greta Garbo


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An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.


Andrew Greeley


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Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.


Hesiod


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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.


Emily Bronte


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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.


Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton


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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.


Joseph Campbell


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All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.


Isak Dinesen


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