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• As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Children, Growing Up, Long

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.361, Macmillan

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• I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old-fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Baby, Humor

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• Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Crazy, Kids, Fighting

  "Cold Turkey" by Kurt Vonnegut, inthesetimes.com. May 10, 2004.

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• I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Simple, Sea

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.60, Canongate Books

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• I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.

  Charles Bukowski

  Past, Agony, Soul

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• I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body, but there is no chance, my god, no chance. rat with rat dog with dog hog with hog, play the piano drunk listen to the drunk piano, realize the myth of mercy stand still as even a child's voice snarls and we have not been fooled, it was only that we wanted to believe.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Children, Believe

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• Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Wall, Doors, Feelings

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.

  Guy Debord

  Writing, People, Drink

  Guy Debord (2004). “Panegyric”, p.29, Verso

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• She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common sense and she had become drunk on ovarian wine, the most potent, sanity- destroying substance in the universe.

  Linda Howard

  War, Wine, Past

  Linda Howard (2012). “Mr Perfect”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Men, People

  Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

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• Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea. Please get me out of jail and I promise I will never drink again. Drink and drive. I will never drink and drive again. I may even start my own group fashioned after MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, but I'll call it AWLTDASH, Alcoholics Who Like to Drink and Stay Home.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Mother, Home

  "Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea". Book by Chelsea Handler, 2008.

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• No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hero, Insane, Sober

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.49, Random House

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• What will you do now?' I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer and good works.' No,' said Rek. 'I mean, what will you do today?' Ah! Today I'll get drunk and go whoring,' said Bowman.

  David Gemmell

  Prayer, Mean, Thinking

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• If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val

  Orson Scott Card

  Brain, Desire, Married

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• Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.

  Frederick Exley

  Men, Sobriety, Alcohol

  Frederick Exley (1997). “A Fan's Notes”

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• Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Government, People, Insane

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.169, Penguin

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• So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Eight, Years, Here I Am

  Jennifer Weiner (2013). “Good Men: An eShort Story”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

  Noam Chomsky

  Science, Keys, Light

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• So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Earth, Break, Burden

  Charles Baudelaire, “Be Drunk”

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• No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

  Agatha Christie

  Funny, Beautiful, Needs

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• When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Hate, Eye, Light

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Stories and Poems”, p.113, OUP Oxford

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• But lately, when I’m drunk, I feel a hostility that I’ve never known before. It is a tension deep in my gut that makes me want to yell until my face is red, knock over glasses with the back of my hand, and kick people I don’t know in the shins.

  Koren Zailckas

  Glasses, Hands, People

  Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.156, Penguin

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• the parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk

  Scott Westerfeld

  Fun, Party

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• Maybe I’m drunk right now, even though I don’t remember drinking anything. When I’m drunk, I say things without thinking. Drinking numbs you from your ability to reason. It makes you forget your own character and become a crazy. Maybe I am a crazy now; I’m going through so much chaos these days that reality is hard to grasp.

  Carlton Mellick III

  Crazy, Drinking, Character

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• Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Recovery, Smoking, Trying

  Augusten Burroughs (2007). “Possible Side Effects”, p.193, Macmillan

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