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“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”
“Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.”
“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”
“I like to have a martini,Two at the very most.After three I'm under the table,after four I'm under my host.”
“Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”
“Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea. Please get me out of jail and I promise I will never drink again. Drink and drive. I will never drink and drive again. I may even start my own group fashioned...”
“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
“Where had he been? Drinking, obviously. Then she started cataloging all the ways he was worthless. On fool impulse, as his most potent available argument against Lily, Bud stuck his hands into his ...”
“If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.”
“Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk.”
“Next to music, beer was best.”
“War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.”
“why do I want to appear to be drinking more than I am?''Make it a habit. Men in their cups are fools, more often than not. And it can be wise to look the fool at times.”
“Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I goTo heal my heart and drown my woeRain may fall, and wind may blowAnd many miles be still to goBut under a tall tree will I lieAnd let the clouds go sailing by”
“After the first glass of vodkayou can accept just about anythingof life even your own mysteriousnessyou think it is nice that a boxof matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes f...”
“You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never "weeps, he knows not why." If Harris's eyes fill with tears, you can bet it is becau...”
“In the fall he picked up his phone one afternoon to hear Grandma Lynn.'Jack,' my grandmother announced, 'I am thinking of coming to stay.' My father was silent, but the line was riddled with his he...”
“Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.”
“He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had to stay sober for a few hours; it was that important.”
“The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He d...”
