# Quote — Alasdair Gray, Lanark

> Instead of visiting ten parties since you came here, laying ten women and getting drunk ten times, you've watched thirty days go by. Instead of making life a continual feast you chop it into days and swallow them regularly, like pills.

- Author: [Alasdair Gray](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alasdair-gray.md)
- Book: [Lanark](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alasdair-gray/lanark.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/alasdair-gray/lanark/instead-of-visiting

## More from this book

> War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alasdair-gray/lanark/war-is-just.md)

> A story can always end happily by stopping at a cheerful moment. Of course in nature the only end is death, but death hardly ever happens when people are at their best. That is why we like tragedies. They show men ending energetically with their wits about them and deserving to do it.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alasdair-gray/lanark/a-story-can.md)

> Attention, please note! Attention, please note! The expansion committee announces that after the hundred and eightieth all twittering is to be treated as a sign of hopelessness!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alasdair-gray/lanark/attention-please-note.md)