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• Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off. I am 54 years old, weigh 220 pounds, and look like the chief dispatcher of a long-distance driving concern. I am a registered Democrat. I drink.

  James M. Cain

  Girl, Distance, Years

  James M. Cain (1982). “The Butterfly”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Believe, Preparation, Secret

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?

  Jack LaLanne

  Sports, Wine, Glasses

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• Life is a sport...drink it up.

  Michael Jordan

  Sports, Funeral, Life Is

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• I like chocolate. I don’t eat it, but I like the smell of it. People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose. I would love to have a perfume based on chocolate.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Eye, Smell, People

  "Thirty Minutes With Karl Lagerfeld". W Magazine Interview, www.wmagazine.com. April 11, 2011.

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• You need to understand something, you drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that you did not dig. You eat lavishly from banquet tables prepared for you by your ancestors. You sit under the shade of trees that you did not plant or cultivate or care for. You have a choice in life, you can just sit back, getting fat, dumb, and happy, consuming all the blessings put before you, or it can metabolize inside of you, become fuel to get you into the fight, to make this democracy real, to make it true to its words that we can be a nation of liberty and justice for all.

  Cory Booker

  Real, Fighting, Opportunity

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• Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop of alcohol. It is really wise. I myself have a few weeks per year, let us call them white or black, when I am not interested in the world around. When I come back from this isolation of the news, I realize that I have missed nothing significant. We live in the rain of disinformation and rumors, where the truth is a very small number. In those weeks of dissociation I seek for knowledge that lies within me.

  Henning Mankell

  Wise, Lying, Rain

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Mar 09, 2012

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• Fellow made me a $10 bet I couldnt quit, and I havent had a drink since. At the time I needed the $10.

  Foster Brooks

  Quitting, Made, Needed

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• I eat too much. I drink to much. A greedy selfish such-n-such. But when I wrap my turban on my mind is clear, I'm 'Baba Lon'.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Selfish, Mind, Too Much

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• If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking - one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.

  Edward Hoagland

  Sports, Journey, Rivers

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• Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

  George Herbert

  Wit

  George Herbert (1871). “The English Poems of George Herbert: Together with His Collection of Proverbs Entitled Jacula Prudentum”, p.227

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• There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's Veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His blood will never be the same.

  Ted Dekker

  Blood, Veins, Fountain

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• It is the obligation of Westboro Baptist Church to put the cup of God's fury to America's lips, and cause America to drink it. And you will drink it!

  Fred Phelps

  America, Church, Lips

  "9/11: God's Wrath Revealed". WBC Video News, September 8, 2006.

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• Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn't want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you'd say 'Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!' That's the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you'll be run over by a big red bus.

  Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

  Running, Exercise, Night

  "Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography". Book by Michael Parker, 2009.

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• Freshly brainwashed from rehab, I carry the bottle into the bathroom. I hold it up to the light. See the pretty bottle? Isn't it beautiful? Yes, it's beautiful. I unscrew the cap and pour it into the toilet. I flush twice. And then I think, why did I flush twice? The answer, is of course, because I truly do know myself. I cannot be sure I won't attempt to drink from the toilet, like a dog.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Beautiful, Dog, Thinking

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.98, Macmillan

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• Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Applause, Constant

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.109, Macmillan

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• One day, my daughter Tybee came to me, and she said, ‘I have so much love for you in my body, Daddy, I can’t stop giving you hugs and kisses. And when I have no more love left, I just drink milk, because that’s where love comes from.’

  Bruce Feiler

  Daughter, Motivation, Inspiration

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• I drink to remember I smoke to forget / Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret.

  Jake Bugg

  Regret, Proud, Stuff

  Song: Two Fingers, Album: Jake Bugg, 2012

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• The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Party, Home

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wine, Giving, Rose

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• The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely, and above all, the elusive promises of friendship and love.

  Pete Hamill

  Lonely, Promise, Love And Friendship

  Pete Hamill (1994). “A Drinking Life: A Memoir”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.

  Cyril Connolly

  Together, Believer

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• It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.

  Dorothy Allison

  Girl, Dry, Littles

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• I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk

  James Crumley

  Reality, Two, Drunk

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.39, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Heart, Would Be

  Abraham Lincoln (1842). “An Address Delivered by Abraham Lincoln: Before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society at the Second Presbyterian Church, Springfield Illinois, on the 22d Day of February, 1842”, p.12

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