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  Alcohol Quotes - Alcohol is popular, but alcoholics are not “The rich don’t have to kill to eat. They “employ” people, as they call it. The rich don’t do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody’s happy. They have beautiful women, the poor have ugly ones. Clothing aside, they’re the product of centuries. Easy to look at, well fed, well washed. After all these years, life can boast no greater accomplishment. It’s no use trying, we slide, we skid, we fall back into the alcohol that preserves the living and the dead, we get nowhere. It’s been proved. After all these centuries of watching our domestic animals coming into the world, laboring and dying before our eyes without anything more unusual ever happening to them either than taking up the same insipid fiasco where so many other animals had left off, we should have caught on. Endless waves of useless beings keep rising from deep down in the ages to die in front of our noses, and yet here w...

  Alcohol Quotes - Alcohol became my only refuge   “The real sadness was that I drifted away from my wife and children because of alcohol, but instead of finding the current back to them when I ceased, I camped out on an uncharted island in the middle of myself.” ― Percival Everett, So Much Blue   “We have Instagram-worthy lives, but we have a wine glass that can never seem to be full enough at the end of the day.” ― Rachel Mack Martin, Functional: A High Performer's Guide to Achieving Freedom from Alcohol   “It’s like one of the greatest questions in the universe, right? What came first—the booze or the blues? Hell if I know.” ― U-Nam, A Guitar Named Swampy: A Novel   “Attachment and aversion are two short term strategies. There is a third. Some people reach for the bottle. It may be a bottle of alcohol or a bottle of pills, but the effect is much the same. Quite a large proportion of the population find it difficult to bear even one day wit...

  Alcohol Quotes - A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into   “A very brief enthusiasm sprang up for bringing tiny bottles of rum into the dining room and adding the rum to the dinner coffee.” ― Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman   “People drink to speed up life, get it over with as quickly as possible, almost as if we know there is another one coming.” ― Jack Freestone   “I was the stardust. He was the moonshine. The thing I need to sleep at night.” ― Dominic Riccitello   “I found you in our truth. Running sideways for a broken muse who loved strangers as much as alcohol.” ― Dominic Riccitello   “In those days I would drink eight pints of Guinness in the course of an evening, stagger back to my bed,and then live through that dreadful and totally disconcerting ordeal of spinning in outer space every time I closed my eyes.Did this happen to you? It must have.You'd close them for a few moments, hoping to go off to sle...

  Alcohol Quotes - The most dangerous drink is gin “O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)” ― William Shakespeare, Othello   “So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.” ― Daniel Silva, The Marching Season   “The most dangerous drink is gin. You have to be really, really careful with that. And you also have to be 45, female and sitting on the stairs. Because gin isn't really a drink, it's more a mascara thinner. "Nobody likes my shoes!" "I made... I made fifty... fucking vol-au-vents, and not one of you... not one of you... said 'Thank you.'" And my favourite: "Everybody, shut up. Shut up! This song is all about me.” ― Dylan Moran   “When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fo...

  Alcohol Quotes - I always think the opening moments of a party are the hardest, before everyone has had enough to drink   “Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more the effect of a 'vital principle' than the splitting up of cane sugar by invertase. The history of this problem is instructive, as it warns us against considering problems as beyond our reach because they have not yet found their solution.” ― Jacques Loeb   “I always think the opening moments of a party are the hardest, before everyone has had enough to drink.” ― Stephanie Clifford, Everybody Rise   “I took a breath. Pictured the bed waiting for me upstairs. Then retreated to the lobby bar alone and ordered an ice-cold gin martini, a small signal to myself that my work was done. I held the glass, its inverted construction an insult to gravity and the order of things. Just like our...