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• All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where, like in a womb, we could curl up and sleep the ecstatic sleep that Burroughs was experiencing with a good big mainline shot of M. and advertising executives in NY were experiencing with twelve Scotch & Sodas in Stouffers before they made the drunkard's train to Westchester---but without hangovers.

  Jack Kerouac

  Heart, Sleep, Scotch

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• I love the smell of Waffle House; it's the smell of freedom, being on the open road and knowing that ninety percent of the people eating around you are also on that road. Truck driver's, road-trippers, hangovers--those who don't live that monotonous life of society slavery.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Monotonous Life, Smell, Knowing

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• I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.

  George Mikes

  Wine, Night, Next Day

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• Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.

  Rumi

  Memories, Sober, Drunkenness

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• I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Memories, Humor

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• Overspending is as certain a part of the holiday season as overeating. But pushing away from both the table and the cash register at least a little bit sooner can make the post-holiday hangover hurt a little bit less.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Hurt, Holiday, Cash

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• Home is where you hang your hangover.

  James Crumley

  Home, Architecture, Sweet Home

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.165, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era--but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Ego, Favors, Might

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mother, Monday, Morning

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• I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my Mum. I know I've got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangover.

  Noel Gallagher

  Drinking, Blood, Drunk

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• I thought you were a drunk." "A drunk?" "Bloodshot eyes, dirty clothes, getting home in the wee hours of the morning, making a lot of noise, grouchy all the time as if you had a hangover… what else was I to think?" He rubbed his face. "Sorry, I wasn't thinking. I should have showered, shaved, and dressed in a suit before I came out to tell you that you were making enough noise to raise the dead.

  Linda Howard

  Morning, Sorry, Dirty

  Linda Howard (2012). “Mr Perfect”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• I've got a hangover!" "No, you hit your head on the floor," Sophie said. Howl rose up on his hands and knees with a scramble. "I can't stay," he said. "I've got to rescue that fool Sophie." "I'm here!" Sophie shook his shoulder. "But so is Mis Angorian! Get up and do something about her!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Hands, Rose, Sophie

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• Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.

  Janet Fitch

  Dream, Wake Up, Credit

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it's just because you're still a bit drunk. That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.

  Jojo Moyes

  Morning, Drunk, Work Out

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You”, p.275, Penguin UK

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• If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Agony, Suffering, Kind

  Kenzaburo Oe, Kenzaburō Ōe (1969). “A Personal Matter”, p.56, Grove Press

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• it's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Beer, Boxes, Conjunctions

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• A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

  Robert Benchley

  Real, Trying, Comedy

  Robert Benchley (2016). “My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew”, p.297, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Hangovers are a vivid form of vengeance. Last night my apartment became the venue for a small, introverted chardonnay festival. A melancholy choir of Bulgarians provided the entertainment, via a set of headphones that ended up irredeemably tangled beneath the bed. Part of me just watched. The other part was in charge.

  Liz Jensen

  Night, Tangled, Vivid

  Liz Jensen (2009). “The Rapture”, p.101, A&C Black

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• There's something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music, too.

  Dave Grohl

  Great Music, Said

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• Some people try deliberately to exploit the colonial hangover for their own purpose, to serve an external force. To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  People, Trying, Purpose

  "The Fate of Africa" by Martin Meredith, (p. 266), 1964.

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• A favorite film of mine is 'Office Space' and I love 'The Hangover.' That is a really good comedy from character in that film, and that is true of 'Office Space' too.

  Seth Gordon

  Office Space, Character, Comedy

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after XXIV. The game will be the focus of conversation, and distractions happy and sad will be the order of the day, not to mention millions of hangovers. I wouldn't buy a toaster or a parachute manufactured the day after Super Bowl XXIV. You cannot engender such torrid anticipation for an event so great that it requires Roman numerals as a suffix, then expect there to be no social repercussions at its end.

  Robert Klein

  Monday, Order, Roman Numerals

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• It was my wife that insisted I do 'The Hangover.

  Ken Jeong

  Wife, My Wife

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• Wall Street got drunk and now it's got a hangover. And the question is, how long will it sober up and not try to do those fancy financial instruments?

  George W. Bush

  Business, Wall, Sober Up

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• There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Player, Games, Mind

  "Eriksson goes against his basic instincts" by Kevin McCarra, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2005.

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