Alcohol Quotes - Page 18

• Caffeine. The gateway drug.

  Eddie Vedder

  Humor, Drug, Gateways

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• American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.

  Pat Conroy

  Patience, Women, Grief

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• The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.

  Douglas Adams

  Brain, Gold, Bricks

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their four-year-old girls clasped to their pant legs and say, "Yeah, but studies say kids can buy drugs more easily than they can buy alcohol." To which I always respond, "I guess that means you keep heroin in your liquor cabinet?

  Koren Zailckas

  Girl, Father, Party

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• [I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.

  Homer

  Wine, Men, Wisest Man

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.481, Penguin

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• The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. 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

  Coffee, Dark, People

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• Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.

  Terry Pratchett

  World

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• The main difference between marketing and fraud is that criminals have to pay for their own alcohol.

  Scott Adams

  Differences, Marketing, Criminals

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• Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with cotton. I would hold it close to my face, so close I couldn't see anything but that blue. It would fill me with a feeling, a feeling I later tried to duplicate with alcohol and finally found again with Clare, a feeling of unity, oblivion, mindlessness in the best sense of the word.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Mom, Butterfly, Blue

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Anxiety was not an emotion I could ever remember feeling when I went out in New York, and I wondered why tonight felt so different. Maybe it was because I no longer had a boyfriend or fiance. I suddenly recognized that there was safety in having someone, as well as a lack of pressure to shine. Ironically, this had cultivated a certain free-spiritedness that had, in turn, allowed me to be the life of the party and hoard the affection of additional men....But that had all changed. I didn't have a boyfriend, a perfect figure, or alcohol-induced outrageousness to fall back on.

  Emily Giffin

  New York, Fall, Party

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• When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.

  Denis Johnson

  Fall, Wife, Dry

  Denis Johnson (1983). “Angels”, Knopf

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• And kissing him is like sucking on alcohol-soaked feet.

  P. C. Cast

  Kissing, Feet, Kissing Him

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Marked: A House of Night Novel”, p.2, Macmillan

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• 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

  People, Black, Doe

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.177, Pan Macmillan

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• I don’t see any police cars.” “They probably had to park a couple blocks over. Anyway, as I was saying, I noticed illegal substances in the hands of a few guests.” “So?” she snapped. “It’s a party.” “Alcohol is illegal under the age of twenty-one.” “Great!” Marcie shouted. “What am I going to do?” She paused, then raised her voice again. “You probably called them!” “Who, me?” Vee said. “And lose the free food? No way.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Couple, Block, Party

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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• Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.

  Jon Ronson

  Sweet, Fruitcake, Nutty

  Jon Ronson (2012). “Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People”, p.598, Pan Macmillan

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• Eugenie, my sweet, your outraged protests are adorable, but they only continue to slow us down. If you want me to help you, then let me. If you don't, then take me to one of those places where human women wear revealing clothing and quickly lose their virtue through alcohol.

  Richelle Mead

  Sweet, Adorable, Want

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.281, Zebra Books

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• 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

  Sleep, Trying, Bed

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• I'm very happy by myself - I'm lucky in that way - if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Lucky, Add

  "Christopher Hitchens - Q&A (2010) lyrics". Interview with Brian Lamb, lyrics.az. 2010.

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• I know we promised Haymitch, we'd do exactly what they said, but I don't think he considered this angle.' 'Where is Haymitch, anyway? Isn't he supposed to protect us from this sort of thing?' says Peeta. 'With all that alcohol in him, it's probably not advisable to have him around an open flame,' I say.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Flames, Angle

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.63, Scholastic Inc.

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• So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

  Daniel Silva

  Drinking, Scotch, Rest Of Your Life

  Daniel Silva (2004). “The Marching Season”, p.66, Penguin

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• This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

  Sam Shepard

  Long, Gone, Stuff

  Sam Shepard (1984). “Sam Shepard Seven Plays”

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• To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

  Caroline Knapp

  Spiritual, Real, Bottles

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.71, Dial Press

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• Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!

  Tennessee Williams

  Drinking, Light, Hot

  "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".

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• Tradition or not, I sometimes thought putting children on an old guy’s lap was already creepy enough. We didn’t need to mix alcohol into it.

  Richelle Mead

  Children, Guy, Creepy

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus Revealed”, p.2, Kensington Books

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• I can do this, I tell myself firmly. I can be attracted to him. It's just a matter of self control and possibly also getting very drunk. So I lift my glass and take several huge gulps. I can feel the bubbles surging into my head, singing happily "I'm going to be a millionaire's wife! I'm going to be a millionaire's wife!" And when I look back at Tarquin, he already looks a bit more attractive. Alcohol is obviously going to be the key to our marital status.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Glasses, Self, Keys

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