I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition. – Mercedes McCambridge
Ive always had bronchitis. Ive been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it. – Mercedes McCambridge
Id never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room. – Mercedes McCambridge
Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time. – Mercedes McCambridge
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. – Winston Churchill, Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930