Jim Harrison
Novelist, Poet
"Being a writer requires an intoxication with language."
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Intoxication
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."
Rainer Maria Rilke
Poet, Novelist
"Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom."
Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together."
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"The only proper intoxication is conversation."
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"Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne."
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