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Anita Shreve Quotes: I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.
         

I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.


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