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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

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First you take a drink then the drink takes a drink then the drink takes you.

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Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

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Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law a...more

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It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

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A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.

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I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

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Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of supe...more

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This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they couldn’t. They could fight the ...more

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Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash b...more

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There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

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It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are significant and me...more