9 Quotes & Sayings By Michael Foley

Michael Foley is a writer, author and speaker whose work has been featured on the front cover of the New York Times bestseller list. His book, titled The Power of Positive Drinking, was published in January 2016 and is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling book. His latest book, The Big Book of Alcoholism: Recovering from Alcoholism and Moving Forward with Hope and Help for Others, was published in November 2016 and has been featured on The Today Show and aired on the Dr. Phil show Read more

He is also the founder of the website, Positive Drinking.

To learn to die is to learn to live. Death...
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To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life. Michael Foley
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Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled Michael Foley
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It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design. Michael Foley
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Only a determined and resourceful scholar could establish manuscript precedence - but in the race to masturbate on a printed page Proust definitely came first. Michael Foley
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The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for specific recognition into a generalized demand for attention and the anger at specific injustice into a generalized feeling of grievance and resentment. The result is a culture of entitlement, attention-seeking and complaint. Michael Foley
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Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics. Michael Foley
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However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise. Michael Foley
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Imagine someone sitting alone in a room without television, radio, computer or phone and with the door closed and the blinds down. This person must be a dangerous lunatic or a prisoner sentenced to solitary confinement. If a free agent, then a panty-sniffing loser shunned by society, or a psycho planning to return to college with an automatic weapon and a backpack full of ammo. Michael Foley