“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.”
“All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.”
“But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.”
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