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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Treasure Island
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good. But not so with us in those last days of heavy drinking.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, The Big Book
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
FRANK SINATRA, quoted in The Hangover Survival Guide
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby Dick
When you go out with a drunk, you'll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you're drinking, drinking is okay. Two's company. Drinking is fun. If there's a bottle, even if your glass isn't empty, he'll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK, Invisible Monsters
I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me.
- Bacchus ever fair and young,
- Drinking joys did first ordain.
- Bachus's blessings are a treasure,
- Drinking is the soldier's pleasure,
- Rich the treasure,
- Sweet the pleasure--
- Sweet is pleasure after pain.
JOHN DRYDEN, Alexander's Feast
As we became subjects of King Alcohol, shivering denizens of his mad realm, the chilling vapor that is loneliness settled down. It thickened, ever becoming blacker. Some of us sought out sordid places, hoping to find understanding companionship and approval. Momentarily we did -- then would come oblivion and the awful awakening to face the hideous Four Horsemen -- Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, Despair.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, The Big Book
Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.
Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil--and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Thomas Green, Mar. 31, 1789
If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.
An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Thomas Green, Mar. 31, 1789
Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.
WILLA CATHER, "On the Divide," The Troll Garden
Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.
Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, The Big Book
- Candy
- Is dandy
- But liquor
- Is quicker.
I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.
STEPHEN KING, interview, Sept. 14, 2000
The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, The Big Book
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