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“Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly.The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation."I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!”
“Watching a parent die is a terrible task. My father, faced with something he could not talk down or browbeat into submission, spent his days with the bottle, as if he determined to drink himself to...”
“I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.”
“Thus, in the boys mind, drink and destruction braided together. Intoxication, he concluded, was a swift and effective catalyst for havoc.”
“If I have a near-beer, Im near beer. And if Im near beer, Im close to tequila. And if Im close to tequila, Im adjacent to cocaine.”
“O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)”
“There has never been a 'war on drugs'! In our history we can only see an ongoing conflict amongst various drug users and producers. In ancient Mexico the use of alcohol was punishable by death, wh...”
“I think that it is a great tragedy that a child can lose their mother, father, sister or brother, because you and I made a decision that getting loaded was more important than they are.”
“I don't like to overdose. Call me old-fashioned.”
“Fortunately for me, I came out of ray misadventures with drugs and alcohol with my life, health, and soul pretty much intact. I know many who didn't. It's not harmless. I've lost many friends to th...”
“It wasn't some Puritan thing. Straight-edge was asking adherents to take control of their lives, not to be blind consumers, and not to be tricked into thinking that drinking and drugs were cool sin...”
“Isn't it obvious in in today's world from people's preoccupation with self-medication, drug and alcohol use, rationalization and avoidance distraction that the truth doesn't just hurt, it's extreme...”
“Does not people's preoccupation these days with drugs, alcohol, medication and self deception prove that the truth not only hurts, but it is torture to bear?”
“I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure.”
“Perhaps that was just a hunch."Barbee shivered again. He knew that he himself possessed what he called the "nose for news" - an intuitive perception of human motivations and the impending events th...”
“Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life!”
“But what of Ham? It didnt matter if he told anyone about his drunken father or not, if he chided him or tried to dress him, if he lifted his struggling body back into bed, if he took his hand and t...”
“Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Market it with the persistence of a drug peddler.”
“A friend comes over with a Ouija board.It spells out: Bourbon. Wheres the band?Just because youre dead doesnt mean you cant have fun.”
“I need a drink. Now.After tossingfine, throwingmy purse and keys on the couch, I march straight into the kitchen. No more delays; it's time to forget tonight. Its been yet another night like all th...”
