1,261 Quotes About Drinking


  • Author Nic Pizzolatto
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    I used to think about it more, but you reach a certain age, you know who you are. Now, I live in a little room out in the country behind a bar... work four nights a week... in between I drink. And there ain't nobody there to stop me. I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a... victory in that.

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  • Author Will Oldham
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    I am drinking againI'm on my seventh cold glass of ginLife is a tribute to youAnd so is dyingAnd drinking in this wayTo die is what I'm tryingI am drinking againI'm on my ninth cold glass of gin

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  • Author Will Oldham
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    I was drunk at the pulpit, I knew it was wrong.And I left in mid-sermon, tempted by a bar-house song.The pews they creaked and shifted as they turned to watch me leave,And I pulled a little bottle from the pocket in my sleeve.

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  • Author Lev Grossman
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    Every morning when he woke up it seemed impossible that he could ever consume another drop of alcohol, but that conviction had always evaporated by five o'clock in the afternoon.

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  • Author Anna Burns
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    She had a glass of Bushmills in one hand and a glass of Bacardi in the other because she was still at that stage of working out what to have for her first drink.

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