Alcohol
Quotes - The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker
“No
other drug can compete with cannabis for its ability to satisfy the innate
yearnings for Archaic boundary dissolution and yet leave intact the structures
of ordinary society. If every alcoholic were a pothead, if every crack user
were a pothead, if every smoker smoked only cannabis, the social consequences
of the ‘drug problem’ would be transformed. Yet, as a society we are not ready
to discuss the possibility of self-managed addictions and the possibility of
intelligently choosing the plants we ally ourselves to. In time, and perhaps
out of desperation, this will come.”
―
Terence McKenna
“I
have, he went on, betrayed myself with
belief,
deluded myself with love
tricked
myself with sex.
the
bottle is damned faithful, he said,
the
bottle will not lie”
―
Charles Bukowski, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the
Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
“We
named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of
creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned.
Yes,
we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one
else would really get, like we did. Not meta-get ... But our first customer, a
gray-haired woman in bifocals and a pink jogging suit, said, "I like the
name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Audrey Hepburn's cat was named Cat.”
―
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
“There
have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and
alcohol.”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Think
champagne, drink champagne!”
―
Ellen Dean
“Tobacco,
coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The
surest poison is time.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The
alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she
had noted in her journal: "booze affects material as it does people.”
―
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
“It
seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?”
―
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely
Patriot
“Cover
your glass in France or Germany --even worse, in England - and in the voice of
someone who has personally affronted, your host will ask why you're not
drinking.
'Oh,
I just don't feel like it this morning.'
'Why
not?'
'I
guess I'm not in the mood?'
'Well,
this'll put you in the mood. Here. Drink up.'
'No,
really, I'm OK.'
'Just
taste it.'
'Actually,
I'm sort of...well, I sort of have a problem with it.'
'Then
how about half a glass?”
―
David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“Drinking
is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who,
like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and
would rather do other things.”
―
Criss Jami, Killosophy
“I
was glad to be made aware
that
“Veimke” (jeune fille au pair),
is
subject to natural law,
and
can be made fat,
by
such things as poor diet,
and
alcohol.”
―
Roman Payne
“Nothing
uses up alcohol faster than political argument.”
―
Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
“Tess
realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the
comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can go so far as to say
"good morning" in public without being liquored up.”
―
Amelia Gray, AM/PM
“To
a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you
seek; in the bottle, you find.”
―
Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
“Civilization
begins with distillation”
―
William Faulkner
“I
mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of
desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as
opposed to the twelve-column read.
I
used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be
less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the
reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on
medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I
could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back
to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.”
―
Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
“Meanwhile
the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to
sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.”
―
Charles Bukowski
“I
find that when people laugh it's usually because they're connecting and
identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff. I'm not
interested in other people thinking differently. I don't care. I'm just like
yeast - I eat sugar and I shit alcohol. And there's a huge culture that goes
with that. Alcohol creates massive shifts in world history, and it changes
people's lives. People get pregnant because of alcohol. But the yeast doesn't
give a fuck. The yeast isn't going, "I really want to help people loosen
up and bring passion into Irish people's lives".”
―
Louis C. K.
“Gordie,
the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who
wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its
own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know
Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same
exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.”
―
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“Cheap
booze is a false economy.”
―
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
“I
was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the
scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and
profound.”
― F.
Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“The
one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be
a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot
hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.”
―
Vikas Swarup, Q & A
“Mr
Cobb was my escort. Such a nice escort, Mr Cobb. So attentive. You should see
him sober. I should see him sober. Somebody should see him sober. I mean, just
for the record. So it could become a part of history, that brief flashing
moment, soon buried in time, but never forgotten - when Larry Cobb was sober.”
―
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
