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“Lowkey punchdrunk off this Sangria-sweet love and all its prodigious trappings”
“He seemed to be lying on the bed. He could not see very well. Her youthful, rapacious face, with blackened eyebrows, leaned over him as he sprawled there.How about my present? she demanded, half wh...”
“Remember my friend, uncontrolled alcohol, uncontrolled casual sex and mindless indoctrination are not signs of progress, they are signs of drowning into the abyss of mental and physical degradation.”
“Stab your demoniac smile to my brain,Soak me in cognac, love, and cocaine”
“Lovecraft says he knows about tentaclesbut that motherfucker never bedded a girl from West Chesterand survivedShe was a toothachethat oneand she tasted like crackthe best thing about her was if I w...”
“There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.”
“Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from the halls of sleep, but a summary, forcible ejection. He lay spra...”
“Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.”
“Squiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the soul?''Oh, rather!''What do you do about it?''I generally take a couple of cocktails.”
“There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief. ”
“Alcohol's been keeping depression alive and well for over ten thousand years.”
“Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor - that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.”
“There has never been any art or literature without drink and there never will be....Unless something is done about the matter [prohibition] this country is going to the dogs. There has been no deve...”
“Parents drinking is the reason you came into the world, and if we didn't keep doing it then, by God, it would be the reason you went back out of it.”
“I started to drink heavily, comfortably caught in the tentacle-like clutches of alcohol.”
“Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer.”
“I get that. For you, its more than following a bunch of rulesno sex, no booze, no swear words, pray every night and twice on Sunday.”
“Beloved, we join hands here to pray for gin. An aridity defiles us. Our innards thirst for the juice of juniper. Something must be done. The drought threatens to destroy us. Surely, God who let man...”
“Why were drunks, almost always, persons of talent, personality, lovable qualities, gifts, brains, assets of all kinds (else why would anyone care?); why were so many brilliant men alcoholic?”
“The greatest tragedy to ever happen to a nation is not the incidences of war or terrorism. It's when more bookshops close down and more drinking bars are opened to replace them!”
