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• The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.

  Vikas Swarup

  Alcohol, Might, Whiskey

  Vikas Swarup (2008). “Q & A: A Novel”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Simple, Wish

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• We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings. We started sober: are love's startled drunkards. You hide me in your cloak of nothingness Reflect my ghost in your glass of being I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream Where your eternity briefly trembles.

  Rumi

  Dream, Glasses, Sea

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• This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Liars, White

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• But there's no joy at all, people say "Oh well he's drunk and happy let him sleep it off"--The poor drunkard is *crying*--He's crying for his mother and father and great brother and great friend, he's crying for help. (p.111)

  Jack Kerouac

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.91, BookBaby

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• Even without the mushroom cloud still I would have hated Listen I would have done the same things even if there were no death I will not be held like a drunkard under the cold tap of facts I refuse the universal alibi

  Leonard Cohen

  Mushrooms, Clouds, Done

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs”, p.48, Random House

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• While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!

  William Booth

  Girl, Children, Fighting

  "Booth the Beloved". Book by J. Evan Smith (pp. 122-124), 1949.

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• We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

  Voltaire

  Knowing, House, Looks

  Voltaire's Notebooks (c.1735-c.1750),

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• She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Eye, Gideon, Green

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• If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Broken, Bottles, Reckless

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1494, Delacorte Press

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• The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Wine, Drink, Know How

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• Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid the archer's bolt. The others work their strategies and wait for the old man to fall. He has no power, yet all power moves in his orbit and to his mad whim. Do you know there's no fool piece on the chessboard, Kent?" "Methinks the fool is the player, the mind above the moves.

  Christopher Moore

  Kings, Moving, Fall

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• All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

  Mark Twain

  Vanity, Metrics

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• To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name - I needed movie companions as drunkards need drinking partners. If I entered a cinema alone, God might plunge his arm through the roof of the auditorium booming in a stereophonic voice, 'And you, Crisp, what are you doing here?' I would never have dared reply, 'I'm just enjoying myself, Lord.'

  Quentin Crisp

  Drinking, Names, Voice

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 27, 1968.

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• A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brother, Evil, Purpose

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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• I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Midst, States

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.155, Rajpal & Sons

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• God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Lovers, Helping, Madmen

  "Heptaméron". Book by Marguerite de Navarre, Novel XXXVIII, 1558.

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• Tear gas, rubber bullets, and I would have arrested all the leaders. Oh, only a disgusting drunkard like ex-President Yahya Khan could have sullied himself with an operation carried out so badly and bloodily.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Leader, Tears, President

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.

  W. H. Auden

  May, Vices, Common

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("Don Juan"), (p. 403), 1962.

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• If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of an infinitely pure Spirit for those who are worldly and selfish, licentious and cruel, ambitious and animal! But with this great loathing is a great pity. And the pity conquers the loathing, appeases it, satisfies it, is reconciled with it, only as it redeems the sinner from his loathsomeness, lifts him up from his degradation, brings him to truth and purity, to love and righteousness; for only thus is he or can he be brought to God.

  Lyman Abbott

  Selfish, Animal, Ambitious

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• It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

  Alain de Botton

  Stranger, Conversation, Fanatics

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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• If the bones of all those who have fallen as a prey to intemperance could be piled up it would make a vast pyramid. Who will gird himself for the journey and try with me to scale this mountain of the dead--going up miles high on human carcasses to find still other peaks far above, mountain above mountain, white with the bones of drunkards.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Journey, Pyramids, White

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• Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Wine

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.784, Harvard University Press

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• When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time past, one's sensibility, being no longer dulled by habit, receives from the slightest stimulus vivid impressions which make everything that has preceded them fade into insignificance, impressions to which, because of their intensity, we attach ourselves with the momentary enthusiasm of a drunkard.

  Marcel Proust

  Past, Self, Different

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.537, Modern Library

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• The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest
  All wordly right, save what he hath by beast.

  George Herbert

  Men, Beast, Forfeit

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