98 quotes found
“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.”
“I'm sitting in front of the TV, watching Jerry Springer, and it makes me think of how many mad people there are in the world, and whether everyone is mad deep down, they just pretend they're not, a...”
“This is a good place," he said."There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.”
“Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place.”
“Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.”
“I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.”
“Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?”
“It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will...”
“I carried a bravado about my drinking like I was a hero of debauchery. But on that Christmas Day, I felt like shit. I had a vague realisation that I was just trying to keep up with some version of ...”
“As a teenager, I loved how I looked in the outfit of using drugs and exercising poor judgement. I had tried it on, spun around in the mirror, and decided I would choose this look, this image, this ...”
“Life will hack off your head and shit down your neck every chance it gets. I've found that consuming drugs and booze, listening to music and always having an excuse in the best way to tip the scales.”
“Shes happier than Nicola. Thats probably true. Alcoholics can stop drinking but what is there for the children of alcoholics? Is it always too late? Probably. She doesnt know.”
“People with family histories of alcoholism tend to have lower levels of endorphins- the endogenous morphine that is responsible for many of our pleasure responses- than do people genetically disinc...”
“A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing”
“I'll never amount to anythingwell anything my parents want, so instead Ill end up puking and drinking till Im blind drunk, Its funny my mother says I hurt myself to spite her but she doesnt know I ...”
“It was clear to her now, Happiness was a seductive illusion. No one as fucked up as her deserved one drop of joy. But oh god was it delicious when it fell into her lap for a little while. (Such a p...”
“a town with more drinking joints than reading joints has a problem reading can solve”
“When it happens and it hits hard, we decide certain things, and realize there's truth in all those dark, lonely days" He had an instantaneous look about him,a glimmer and a glint over those eyes,he...”
“If I left any good or planted any flowers among thorns, the credit goes to God and my many substantial friends.”
“By all accounts Rafe's life had been shattered by the loss of his brother Peter. But whereas she turned away from drink when Draven died, Rafe had simply upended a barrel of brandy on his head and ...”
