267 quotes found
“I'm a drinker with writing problems.”
“I am a drinker with writing problems.”
“I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.”
“Nancy Astor: "Winston, you are a drunk!"Winston Churchill: "And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning."(Reported exchange will Winston Churchill.”
“He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend...”
“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”
“What your body does is unrelated to your heart. Don't believe it. The same survey reports that hooking up commonly takes place when both participants are drinking or drunk, and it's not hard to gue...”
“I slept and the night rolled over into day like a dog. Another post-meridian awakening - sunshine on empty bottles, tangled clothes. I dozed while the temperature rose.”
“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you d...”
“I admit I get the occasional headache," I said. "I admit some of my hangovers are epic. But usually all it takes for me to bounce back is a sauna, cold-plunge pool, steam bath, massage, and wasabi ...”
“You never know what the vodka will bring, I laughed.Oh, like the time you caught my hair on fire at the candlelight party in Mels basement! That was the craziest thing that I ever had happen to me....”
“Time doesnt heal anything. Its like drinking. The best it can do is help you forget, if youre lucky.”
“Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince."So that I may forget," replied the tippler."Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him."Forget that I am ashamed," the...”
“She takes another sip of her drink. She looks around the bar. I look at the fine muscles in her neck, at the two points of her clavicle. Her grief has not so much changed her as stripped her down, ...”
“He stopped complaining, but now I was annoyed. I went to the roof and drank alone.”
“I've never understood people who just go out for one drink. Once I have one drink, I want all the drinks.”
“Do you drink?""Of course,I just said I was a writer.”
“There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.”
“I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.”
“The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated pulse.”
