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“You're the measure of my true decline. Your home isn't in the underworld, you live in the back room of the liquor store. My eternally hung-over angel, my Satan crawling like an amber worm from a bo...”
“To be or not to be, fucked up on whiskey, that is the question.”
“About a week after they had come back, a load of mail came to the island. They were the first letters the men had received in several weeks, and for a night it relieved the changeless pattern of th...”
“Ptah held up his mug. Do you realize, weve fought together, starved together, bled together, endured slavery, and looked into the jaws of death...But we never drank together! Marcus finished, clank...”
“That drinking thing, the night before an early morning start, I actually think it helps the productivity in some ways (as long as it's not spirits) it gives you that I don't give a fuck attitude, m...”
“... while we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessing the far worse effect of drink on an empty mind.”
“To be certain you're consuming the real deal, look carefully at the label. W-h-i-s-k-e-y indicates the heavenly liquid from the Emerald Isle. Without the "e," it's from Scotland or some other godfo...”
“I made a considerable dent in the bourbon reserves of three bars. Maybe I couldnt quite walk a straight line after that, but I was still thinking up a storm and getting nowhere. I switched to Calve...”
“Usually it`s like this: I sit down and drink with the idea of clarifying just where I am going with my life, and then, after a while, I am unable even to stand on my feet”
“Go & tell your drinking buddies& psychoanalyst your neighborhas risen from the ashes. I wonderif I should tell you about the love lettershidden behind the doorjamb. This housestill stands among my ...”
“If now in some ways I drink too much, its not that I lack a reverence for the world.”
“Taking my drink, I moved around the bar to her. Her smile was a little crooked as I sat down. I guessed it had been a wet night for platinum blondes.”
“Reggie, you wrapped your sports car around a telephone pole after drinking a bar." "Yeah... But I was wearing my seatbelt.”
“I also drink Scotch. But I'm not picky. I'll take the victory Scotch, or the Scotch of defeat. Or the rotgut swill.”
“Well, I've kept you waiting long enough," he said, peering at me from that distance which drinking adds between people and which, at odd turns in the evening, seems closeness itself.”
“Besides, she was alone and those who drink alone, she decided, had no need of any impediments to the pure act of consumption.”
“Rum is tonic that clarifies the vision,and sets things in true perspective.”
“A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it, makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive,...”
“You know, that's the trouble with drinking. Come the morning, you can never remember their names.”
“Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself.”
