505 quotes found
“Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.”
“I always think the opening moments of a party are the hardest, before everyone has had enough to drink.”
“This society doesn't work without booze our parties aren't good enough, our conversations aren't sufficiently interesting, nor is our self-confidence high enough to sustain our interactions withou...”
“A lot of people recoil from the word "drugs" - which is understandable given today's noxious street drugs and their uninspiring medical counterparts. Yet even academics and intellectuals in our soc...”
“Drugs are also a part of school life in particular marijuana. Alcohol beverages, prostitution - not so much on campus - but that is a way of survival for some young women and young men. These are s...”
“No other drug can compete with cannabis for its ability to satisfy the innate yearnings for Archaic boundary dissolution and yet leave intact the structures of ordinary society. If every alcoholic ...”
“it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.”
“I wonder if they were aware of the power of complimentary alcohol during World War I.”
“I had sent her to four consecutive psychiatrists, and not one of them had gotten me sober.”
“All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves ...”
“You were like fine wine, but cheap wine gets you drunk faster.”
“She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.”
“[She] soon perceived that as she walked in the flock, sometimes with this one, sometimes with that, that the fresh night air was producing staggerings and serpentine courses among the men who had p...”
“They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.”
“My tongue thirsty for superiority, maybe even immortality, ruled me. I was ruled by my tongue. I was ruled by women. I was ruled by alcohol.”
“Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
“Oh God how subtle he would have to be, how cunning... No paragraph, no phrase even of the thousands the book must contain could strike a discordant note, be less than fully imagined, an entire nove...”
“My dream was one day ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.”
“I automatically assume people won't like me, so I don't talk to them unless they approach me first. I can't become a part of a crowd because I can't get past that feeling that I don't belong.”
“I have, he went on, betrayed myself withbelief, deluded myself with lovetricked myself with sex.the bottle is damned faithful, he said,the bottle will not lie”
