![]() Without question, the greatest invention in the Sooooo, let's all get drunk, and go to heaven. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy. When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. Work is the curse of the drinking classes. If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs. Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it. Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer. What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.Ī woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.Ībstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness or as good as drink. You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest HemingwayĪlways do sober what you said you'd do drunk. The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.Īn intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. Don't let anyone, anything, ever change your feeling for me, change your love.When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. I can't bear what they're saying about you in court. It may actually make things worse.īut my father will win! I can't endure my father winning. You didn't corrupt me! I corrupted you, if anything!īut I must have my say! It's outrageous! Everyone else has said everything, anything that came into his head! I'm the person all this is about! It's me my father wants to get at, not you! It's outrageous that I can't have my say! Oscar, you must let me in the witness box! If the jury can only hear what I have to say.īosie, darling boy, as soon as they see you in all your golden youth and me in all my corruption. You're amusing, very amusing, but when you're not at your best, you're no one! You just about do when you're at your best. You're the biggest snob I've ever met, and you think you're so daring because you fuck the occasional boy. You like to write about Dukes and Duchesses, but you know nothing about them. You like me, you lust after me, you go about with me because I've got a title. SHUT UP! Dearest boy! Darling Bosie! It doesn't mean anything! You don't love me! The only person you've ever loved is yourself. You're just a boring, middle-aged man with a blocked-up nose. You don't interest me, not when you're ill. You'll be wanting me to empty your chamber pot next. Have you forgotten how to wash?Īs a matter of fact, I'm dying for a glass of water. The world mocks at it and sometimes puts someone in the pillory for it. ![]() That it should be so, the world does not understand. And it repeatedly exists between an elder and a younger man when the elder has intellect and the younger man has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him. So much misunderstood that it may be described as 'the love that dare not speak its name', and on account of it I am placed where I am now. Such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you may find in the sonnets of Michelangelo or Shakespeare. 'The love that dare not speak its name', in this century, is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Johnathan. Then what is 'the love that dare not speak its name?' So, is it not clear that the love describe relates to natural and unnatural love? In this poem by Lord Alfred Douglas, 'Two Loves', there is one love, true love, which, and I quote 'fills the hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame.' And there is another: 'I am the love that dare not speak its name.' Was that poem explained to you?
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