Alcohol Quotes - Page 19

• Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

  Alan Watts

  Self, Two, Suffering

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.76, New World Library

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• Civilization begins with distillation

  William Faulkner

  Hipster, Civilization, Distillation

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• You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.

  Raymond Chandler

  Hangover, Big Sleep

  Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.113, Vintage

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• Minus my relationship with Kennedy, I had no automatic invitation to Greek Parties or events, though Chaz and Erin could invite me to some stuff since I fell under the heading of acceptable things to bring to any party: alcohol and girls. Awesome. I'd gone from independent girlfriend to party paraphernalia.

  Tammara Webber

  Girl, Party, Independent

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• Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.

  H. Beam Piper

  Two, Together, Pity

  H. Beam Piper (2015). “Little Fuzzy: Science Fiction Stories”, p.21, 谷月社

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• Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Coffee, Poison

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.319, Рипол Классик

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• Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Stronger, Red, Bitterness

  Dennis J. Carlile, Arthur Rimbaud, Alexia Montibon (2000). “Rimbaud: The Works : A Season in Hell, Poems & Prose, Illuminations”, p.154, Xlibris Corporation

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• Alcohol was for people who basically wished to be dead but lacked the courage to kill themselves.

  MacDonald Harris

  People

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• Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Queens, Cat, Vodka

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• In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her memory. She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and at the same time the curtain of oblivion wraps her lewdness in an all-concealing darkness. As if a poet were writing his greatest poem with ink that instantly disappears.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Writing, Play

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• Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.

  Weihui Zhou

  Chinese, Calligraphy, Influence

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• I don't do alcohol. Or other people's boyfriends. And don't you forget it.

  Meg Cabot

  People, Forget, Forget It

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Airhead:”, p.183, Scholastic Inc.

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• Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.

  Tammara Webber

  Criminals, Violence, Triggers

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• The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Garden, Self

  "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, 1999.

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• I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

  W. C. Fields

  Gambling, Half, Wild Women

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• The Seven Commandments: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal.

  George Orwell

  Sleep, Animal, Wings

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.21, Penguin UK

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• I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Night, Years, Rose

  Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death”, Random House LLC

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• My point about alcohol is that if you abuse something, it abuses you back.

  Michka Assayas

  Abuse, Ifs

  Michka Assayas (2006). “Bono”, p.110, Penguin

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• He took a long drink, then grimaced. “I do not have a drinking problem,” he announced, his voice needlessly loud. “I have a Churchillian relationship with alcohol: I can crack jokes and govern England and do anything I want to do. Except not drink.

  John Green

  Drinking, Voice, Long

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.185, Penguin

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• It had been three weeks, four days and twelve hours since I'd seen her. Since she'd torn my heart out. If I had been drinking, I'd blame it on the alcohol. It had to be an illusion, a desperate one. But I hadn't been drinking. Not a drop. There was no mistaking Blaire. It was her. She was actually here. Blaire was back in Rosemary. She was at my house.

  Abbi Glines

  Drinking, Heart, House

  Abbi Glines (2014). “The Rosemary Beach Collection: Rush and Blaire: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, and Forever Too Far”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's will, then rudely snatched away just when one is starting to get into it. Was really beginning to enjoy the feeling that normal service was suspended and it was OK to lie in bed as long as you want, put anything you fancy into your mouth, and drink alcohol whenever it should chance to pass your way, even in the mornings. Now suddenly we are all supposed to snap into self-discipline like lean teenage greyhounds.

  Helen Fielding

  Morning, Teenage, Lying

  Helen Fielding (2016). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• No alcohol, Riley." She nodded at the screen. "How are you liking the twenty-first century?" Riley burped. "The Take That are most melodic. And God bless Harry Potter is all I can say. If not for him, all of London would have been consumed by the dark arts.

  Eoin Colfer

  Art, Dark, Twenties

  Eoin Colfer (2013). “The Reluctant Assassin (WARP Book 1)”, p.75, Penguin UK

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• I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.

  Dennis Potter

  Art, Believe, People

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• I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.

  Richelle Mead

  Color, Alchemist, Way

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.113, Penguin

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• Ice cubes likely sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than attractive models in cheesecake poses. The inconspicuous ice cubes often hide the invisible sell - invisible, that is, to the conscious mind.

  Wilson Bryan Key

  Business, Ice, Mind

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