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“Sala called for more drink and Sweep brought four rums, saying they were on the house. We thanked him and sat for another half hour, saying nothing. Down on the waterfront I could hear the slow cla...”
“One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.”
“I don't ever drink alone. It's not much fun. And I don't think I will until I am an alcoholic.”
“He was in that stage of loveand of liquorwhere one is completely taken up with oneself, and can get along very well without the other party.”
“Writers choose to drink because of their inability to cope with the daily hassles of being part of a society. Why shouldnt they? Every day an intelligent human being is plagued with bills, horrifyi...”
“Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.”
“To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.If a man writes well only when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. And if he says that it's bad for his liver, I'l...”
“The thing I like about Irish whiskey is that the more you drink the smoother it goes down. Of course that's probably true of antifreeze as well, but illusion is nearly all we have.”
“Wine is not a magic serum of truth. It just silences that smart little voice in your head which advises against saying some dumb shit.”
“He only drinks when he gets depressed,' said Carrot. 'Why does he get depressed?' 'Sometimes it's because he hasn't had a drink.”
“There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness.”
“My side felt a lot better when Nora called me at noon the next day. "My nice policeman wants to see you," she said. "How do you feel?""Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober." I pushed Asta out of t...”
“New Rule: The Napa Valley is Disneyland for alcoholics. Be honest, you're not visiting wineries in four days because you're an oenophile, you're doing it because you're a drunk. It's the only place...”
“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to ease those words onto the page.”
“There is something about gin, the tang in it of the deep wildwood, perhaps, that always makes me think of twilight and mists and dead maidens. Tonight it tinkled in my mouth like secret laughter.”
“I began drinking because the thought that I was drinking gave me a kind of identity: each time I poured myself a brandy in the deserted afternoon I could say to myself 'I am a woman who drinks.”
“empty whiskey bottles strewn about like forgotten failures”
“Kid, I've only known you two days and I've seen you plastered three times." He shook his head. "A bar would not be a good career move for you.”
“I went out and had a drink. I needed to talk to someone, and solitary drinkers are lucky in this regard they always have someone to talk to.”
“Ivanov: Gentlemen, you've again set up a drinking shop in my study... I have asked each and every one of you a thousand times not to do that... Look now, you've spilt vodka on a paper... and there ...”
