Alcoholics Quotes - Page 8

• Should alcoholics go to liquor stores?

  Ally Carter

  Liquor Stores, Should, Liquor

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• There appear to be many people who chose to go crazy (or become alcoholics, addicts, criminals, suicides) rather than have to bear the pain and ambiguity of a life situation that they have decided that they cannot stand. (98)

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Suicide, Pain, Crazy

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• I require something so horrifically alcoholic that it makes livers tremble with fear and run for their lives when its name is uttered.

  Mira Grant

  Running, Names, Liver

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• I suppose if I gave myself the chance I could be an alcoholic.

  Sylvia Plath

  Chance, Ifs

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.209, Anchor

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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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• All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

  Thomas Szasz

  Humor, Intelligent, America

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• [Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

  Auguste Piccard

  Drinking, Dirty, Science

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• I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Kings, Humble, Humor

  The New Statesman 'London Diary' 3 August (1962)

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• Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull's-eye.

  Michael Josephson

  Humor, Eye, Practice

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• Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

  Rick Larsen

  Children, Humor, Alcohol

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• A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Men, Drunk, Alcohol

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• Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

  Nancy Astor

  Husband, Drinking, Beer

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• Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

  George Saintsbury

  Alcohol, Soul, Body

  George Saintsbury (1963). “Notes on a cellar-book”

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• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Food, Drinking, Beer

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• Whatever your (unfavorable) situation is, it is a good idea to ask yourself "WHAT YOU WOULD DO if you were free of it." An alcoholic's wife might wish her husband would stop drinking...On examination of her beliefs, she may discover she was frightened of not achieving her own goals and actually encouraged the alcoholism so she would not have to face her own failure.

  Seth Roberts

  Husband, Drinking, Ideas

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• One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

  Nancy Astor

  Time, Educational, Drinking

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  Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping.

  Stephen Colbert

  Beer, Marijuana, Dry

  Twitter post from Jun 05, 2012

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• Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life!.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Thinking, Life Is

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• Maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe North in Tender in the Night, and they're drinking because of a deep, unquenchable sadness of the soul, or the terrible legacy of the First World War, whereas I just get drunk because I'm thirsty, and I like the taste of lager.

  David Nicholls

  War, Drinking, Sadness

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• A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Inspirational, Humorous, Book

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• Get off the cross, we need the wood.

  Tori Amos

  Jesus, Recovery, Needs

  Song: Big Wheel, Album: American Doll Posse, 2007

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• When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.

  James Crumley

  Spring, Drinking, Heart

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.10, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Drinking, Food, Wine

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.529

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• What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm throwing up." Wow. She sounds just like my dad! "I'm only an alcoholic when I get drunk." There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. Penelope gorges on her pain and then throws it up and flushes it away. My dad drinks his pain away. (107)

  Sherman Alexie

  Pain, Dad, Differences

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• Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.

  Dodie Smith

  Father, Believe, Water

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