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Being unkillable, so long as one had some healing power stored up, could do strange things to a pers...

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Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki...

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More wine," Lightsong said, raising his cup."You can't get drunk, Your Grace," Llarimar noted. "Your...

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I am a drinker with writing problems.

I'm a drinker with writing problems.

We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the da...

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Drinking gave me a rush of confidence, and for a boy hounded by feelings of inadequacy, the buzz was...

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Brennan ManningAll Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

... You must always remember... Whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviat...

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One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering ...

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Jem grinned. “Where have you been? The Blue Dragon? The Mermaid?” “The Devil Tavern if you must know...

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You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love.....

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Cassandra ClareThe Rise of the Hotel Dumort

So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wa...

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Ya got cigarettes?” she asks. “Yes,” I say,“I got cigarettes.” “Matches?” she asks.“Enough to burn R...

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Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious a...

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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of every...

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There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up...

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I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep hi...

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I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil ...

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I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in ...

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it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

one doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

There are strings in the human heart which must never be sounded by another, and drinks that I make ...

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Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea. Please get me out of jail and I promise I will never drink ag...

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I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. ...

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I don't like to overdose. Call me old-fashioned.

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

I have a question. Is it okay to drink while you're pregnant...if you're planning on giving the baby...

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.

If I have a near-beer, I’m near beer. And if I’m near beer, I’m close to tequila. And if I’m close t...

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Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even th...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew....

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I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's no...

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Dashiell HammettThe Maltese Falcon

My side felt a lot better when Nora called me at noon the next day. "My nice policeman wants to see ...

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Natives of the Florida Keys often refer to themselves as Conchs, and for good reason: They have been...

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Dave BarryBest. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland

For the first twenty years of my life, I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but...

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David SedarisMe Talk Pretty One Day

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of phys...

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Cover your glass in France or Germany --even worse, in England - and in the voice of someone who has...

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David SedarisWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames

I would rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy

You are not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

... I should wish to add, as a tribute to the great merits of your lordship's cellar, that, although...

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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

I like to have a martini,Two at the very most.After three I'm under the table,after four I'm under m...

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The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existenc...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Janx Spirit : Janx Spirit is a rather potent alcoholic beverage, and is used heavily in drinking gam...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its pract...

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way h...

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Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY...

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Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine

Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again.Such hilarious visions clamber Thro...

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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not be...

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Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Sym...

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That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night...

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The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, b...

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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. Tha...

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Two wives despaired of him,’ he said. ‘When he got engaged to Sylvia, she made it a condition that h...

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Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

First you take a drink then the drink takes a drink then the drink takes you.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of cours...

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The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkn...

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There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, ...

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Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

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F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Beautiful and Damned

To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.If a man writes well onl...

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In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

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Florence KingConfessions of a Failed Southern Lady

After the first glass of vodkayou can accept just about anythingof life even your own mysteriousness...

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Frank O'HaraThe Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

He was in that stage of love–and of liquor–where one is completely taken up with oneself, and can ge...

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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological...

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I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

Drink not the third glass - which thou can'st not tame when once it is within thee.

The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed...

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George OrwellDown and Out in Paris and London

He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation ...

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Had a couple of drinks by myself. It was a mistake. Have I got to give up drinking, too? If I elimin...

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Graham GreeneThe End of the Affair

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every ...

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It is no longer necessary to preach sonorously of the sinful and deleterious effect of liquor on the...

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The social prestige of wine at table and at the club must be destroyed through lofty example and pol...

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And even in the open air the stench of whiskey was appalling. To this fiendish poison, I am certain,...

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H. P. LovecraftLord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters

He stopped complaining, but now I was annoyed. I went to the roof and drank alone.

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs ...

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Now is the time to drink!

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.

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Hunter S. ThompsonProud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman

OK for now. I enjoyed my quick, high-powered visit over there and look forward to a dead-game replay...

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Hunter S. ThompsonThe Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman

Sala called for more drink and Sweep brought four rums, saying they were on the house. We thanked hi...

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Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again.

Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I goTo heal my heart and drown my woeRain may fall, and wind may blowAnd m...

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The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut t...

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