Gaddis Muncie Quotes

#1. In went water and loaves of blackbread and sausages and cheese, and out can shit and piss and language.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

Horatio Nelson

#3. For a long time, when it's working, the drink feels like a path to a kind of self-enlightenment, something that turns us into the person we wish to be, or the person we think we are. In some ways the dynamic is simple: alcohol makes everything better, until it makes everything worse.

Caroline Knapp

#4. Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.

Sergei Dovlatov

#5. I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.

Lech Walesa

#6. At seven, I didn't insist on my version of the world.

Eileen Favorite

#7. Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really learned a lot from both of them.

Chandler Canterbury

#8. You're not as good as you think you are.

Eddie Martinez