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There was something ghost-like and insubstantial about gases to these early chemists. They called li...

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With the smell of beer I try to get the smell of death off me. And only the smell of death will get ...

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Italo CalvinoIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

It starts raining harder, I've got a long way to go walking and pushing that sore leg right along in...

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alcohol played the midwife

The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

She was well primed with a good load of Delahunt's port under her bellyband.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol that's part of society.

Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede.

When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake...

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Jeffrey BernardReach for the Ground: The Downhill Struggle of Jeffrey Bernard

There is this advantage about German beer: it does not make a man drunk as the word drunk is underst...

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Jerome K. JeromeThree Men on the Bummel

Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested -...

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Oh God how subtle he would have to be, how cunning... No paragraph, no phrase even of the thousands ...

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John CrowleyAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

Liza hated alcoholic liquors with an iron zeal. Drinking alcohol in any form she regarded as a crime...

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When my pals in high school were starting to drink, it always looked unappealing to me. I would be a...

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Kathy GriffinOfficial Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin

It wasn't some Puritan thing. Straight-edge was asking adherents to take control of their lives, not...

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Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him th...

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Some mysterious revenge of nature has seen to it that no poem in praise of drink or tobacco (or snuf...

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Kingsley AmisThe New Oxford Book of Light Verse

I find that when people laugh it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that ...

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I find that when people laugh it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that ...

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I find that when people laugh it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that ...

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I find that when people laugh it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that ...

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Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I...

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One more drink and I'll be under the host.

Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, t...

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Alcohol's a depressant, it will let me down later.

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? I...

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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

ON GETTING DRUNK:"Those who are Christians are to see to it that they are grateful for grace and red...

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To alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems

Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a...

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Michael PollanThe Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

I have heard Silvius, an excellent physician of Paris, say that lest the digestive faculties of the ...

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Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly.The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation."I beg pardon,...

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The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gna...

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Nelson AlgrenThe Neon Wilderness

Well, I may get drunk," the Widow admitted, "but I don't stagger. Sometimes I fall down. But I don't...

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Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.

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Osamu DazaiBlue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I...

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It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thou...

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Squiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the s...

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Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.

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Patrick RothfussThe Name of the Wind

Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered ...

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absinthe removes the bitter taste of failure and grants me strange visions which are charming princi...

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Peter AckroydThe Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

Some drink to forget, I drink to remember. I drink in order to understand what I mean and to discove...

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Peter AckroydThe Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

Farrell had seen pure white drunkenness before, but not often enough to recognize it at sight. He kn...

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison i...

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It was one of those things they keep in a jar in the tent of a sideshow on the outskirts of a little...

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Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After t...

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That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no so...

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Richard MathesonI Am Legend and Other Stories

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

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Robert A. HeinleinThe Moon is a Harsh Mistress

History, as taught by schools, has white washed the drunkenness out of the past. It has minimized th...

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Robert EvansA Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization

You are dehydrated," I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to tak...

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Robert Penn WarrenAll the King's Men

Civilization rests on two things," said Hitzig; "the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, a...

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Pour alcohol on a bundle of nerves and it generally turns into a can of worms.

In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary...

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Sophara scrawled orders on a slate and handed it to one of the libationarians, whose encyclopedic kn...

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Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy f...

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

I looked at mother with adoration in my own eyes, and when she had taken the kerosene lamp and had g...

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Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcohol...

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There'a a phrase, "the elephant in the living room", which purports to describe what it's like to li...

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I know we promised Haymitch, we'd do exactly what they said, but I don't think he considered this an...

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Usually after a good puke you feel better right away. We hugged each other and then said good-bye an...

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My dream was one day ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight dow...

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Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a q...

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No other drug can compete with cannabis for its ability to satisfy the innate yearnings for Archaic ...

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Because the world all twisted up and wrong, like distorted glass, only came back into focus if you l...

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Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcoho...

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... drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat

Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

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ThiruvalluvarHoly Kural - Thirukkural in Tamil with English Translations

[She] soon perceived that as she walked in the flock, sometimes with this one, sometimes with that, ...

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Thomas HardyTess of the D'Urbervilles

The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and ...

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Thorstein VeblenThe Theory of the Leisure Class

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

People, heed my warning: That stuff is Specials Olympics in a pint glass. You think they are harmles...

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A late arrival had the impression of lots of loud people unnecessarily grouped within a smoke-blue s...

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Vladimir NabokovAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

I was in love with a beautiful blond once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted ...

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Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!

Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical facult...

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To begin with, there is an almost compulsive promiscuity associated with homosexual behavior. 75% of...

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No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any ot...

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She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, al...

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All political movements are basically anti-creative — since a political movement is a form of war. “...

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Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well...

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The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a...

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One of the cafés had that brilliant idea of putting up a slogan: 'the best protection against infect...

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As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combi...

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Stab your demoniac smile to my brain,Soak me in cognac, love, and cocaine

I can party like a twenty-four-year-old but it takes me almost a week to recover.

Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which i...

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Anaïs NinA Spy in the House of Love

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and ma...

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They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you mi...

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Anthony BourdainA Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

There were, however, a few exceptions.One was Norma Dodsworth, the poet, who had not unpleasantly dr...

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All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner mom...

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If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell y...

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There is hope for the alcoholic: God is able to deliver from this as well as any other addiction.

Among young people . . . drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics.

Drunkenness is not a new vice. Its ravages have always been a scourge on the human race . . .Alcohol...

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