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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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The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue...

... I've a thirst on me I wouldn't sell for half a crown.- Give it a name, citizen, says Joe.- Wine ...

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It's a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but I think you'll be amused by its presumption...

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The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked...

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You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. ...

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Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

There is something about gin, the tang in it of the deep wildwood, perhaps, that always makes me thi...

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John BanvilleThe Book of Evidence

He neither drank smoked nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally saving his money he died early surr...

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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

Drink today and drown all sorrow You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

They swallowed, tasted their tongues, sucked their lips, and there was a far-away look in their eyes...

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I don't ever drink alone. It's not much fun. And I don't think I will until I am an alcoholic.

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

Lucas felt uncommonly depressed and careless. Drunkenness, in a man like August Hay, melts the restr...

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What when drunk one sees in other women one sees in Garbo sober.

What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disco...

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The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful el...

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I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.

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Libba BrayA Great and Terrible Beauty

Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?""What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said."To...

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Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

The bar . . . is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable -...

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When a man wants to have an alehouse meltdown, the worst thing you can do is stand in his way

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Luke HainesPost Everything: Outsider Rock and Roll

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

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

I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; ...

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At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I t...

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Oh man sometimes I wake up feel like a cat runover.Are you familiar with the stoical aspects of hard...

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I peer through the spectral, polluted, nicotine-sodden windows of my sock at these old lollopers in ...

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Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, o...

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

Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after fort...

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Is it that we pretend to a reformation? Truly, no: but it may be we are more addicted to Venus than ...

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The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence...

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In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, make...

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Actually, they fought to fill the emptiness of their lives as they filled their empty glasses. They ...

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About a week after they had come back, a load of mail came to the island. They were the first letter...

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Norman MailerThe Naked and the Dead

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.