947 Quotes About Alcohol

  • Author Robert Black
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    SpongeThat is the plight of the writerPlied with alcoholIn the name of the dreamSqueezed and broken Almost to deathUntil a few dropsOf geniusBleed

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  • Author David Mitchell
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    This society doesn't work without booze – our parties aren't good enough, our conversations aren't sufficiently interesting, nor is our self-confidence high enough to sustain our interactions without alcohol. It's everywhere, lubricating everything.

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  • Author Peter Ackroyd
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    Some drink to forget, I drink to remember. I drink in order to understand what I mean and to discover what I know. Under its benign influence all the stories and dramas which properly belong to the sphere of art are announced by me in conversation.

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  • Author Keith Buckley
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    If I could bottle this exact feeling I have right now, and sell it, I'd make millions." I said to Chet"Well, unfortunately for you, but luckily for every other adult, someone already has. They called it alcohol.

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  • Author Peter Ackroyd
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    absinthe removes the bitter taste of failure and grants me strange visions which are charming principally because they cannot be written down. Only in absinthe do I become entirely free and, when I drink it, I understand the symbolic mysteries of odour and of colour.

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  • Author Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
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    I have never seen anyone drink like he did. To say he drank with a vengeance is almost understating it: it was almost as if there was a thirst there, a deep and insatiable craving that made the man keep going back for more and more until he sat down in one corner with a bottle.

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