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There is hope for the alcoholic: God is able to deliver from this as well as any other addiction.

Among young people . . . drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics.

Drunkenness is not a new vice. Its ravages have always been a scourge on the human race . . .Alcohol...

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Thousands are killed and injured every year by teenagers driving too fast or under the influence of ...

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Do not seek solace in alcohol. Alcohol obscures good judgment and leaves you unable to think clearly...

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A senator once confided to me that the greatest need in Washington was the elimination of the cockta...

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Drinking has become one of the most serious social problems. It is basically the result of an attemp...

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Drunkenness. This Greek word means overindulgence in alcohol. Alcohol may be used for medicine, but ...

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Liquor is not necessary either for health or for so-called gracious living . . .It is the cause of u...

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Researchers have found that peer pressure exerted within a clique has caused every one of its member...

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Escapism seems to be the order of the day . . .Escape with drugs or alcohol, and the bitterness of l...

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This self-confident generation has produced more alcoholics, more drug addicts, more criminals, more...

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Some years ago I was invited to be on a television talk show with one of the most famous personaliti...

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Some of the most heart-breaking letters I receive are from people who tell how alcohol or drugs have...

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The Bible condemns the use of any substance which alters or distorts our thinking (including alcohol...

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When the headlines get black and foreboding, the sale of alcohol and barbiturates rises in the count...

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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

The others would then fall silent and she would continue about doped gallium arsenide detectors, or ...

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I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviat...

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Not giving him booze, are you? He's a little young for it.

Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep hi...

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Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deser...

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What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.

I have, he went on, betrayed myself withbelief, deluded myself with lovetricked myself with sex.the ...

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Charles BukowskiPlay the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

Like anybody can tell you, I am not a very nice man. I don't know the word. I have always admired th...

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That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens yo...

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I think I need a drink.''Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

I had never been a dresser. My shirts were all faded and shrunken, 5 or 6 years old, threadbare. My ...

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it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

one doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

I don't like to overdose. Call me old-fashioned.

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

My mother agreed to aid my abuse of alcohol but only if I promised never to tell my newly converted ...

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

I have a question. Is it okay to drink while you're pregnant...if you're planning on giving the baby...

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

Cheap booze is a false economy.

If I have a near-beer, I’m near beer. And if I’m near beer, I’m close to tequila. And if I’m close t...

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It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even th...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Oh, I'm not saying that alcohol is perfect. It has caused its share of problems. Russia is only one ...

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Dave BarryI'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood

This society doesn't work without booze – our parties aren't good enough, our conversations aren't s...

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For the first twenty years of my life, I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but...

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David SedarisMe Talk Pretty One Day

Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading th...

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We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of phys...

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Cover your glass in France or Germany --even worse, in England - and in the voice of someone who has...

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David SedarisWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames

Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her...

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People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and ev...

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... I should wish to add, as a tribute to the great merits of your lordship's cellar, that, although...

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Trillian did a little research in the ship's copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It had so...

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I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just ...

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The most dangerous drink is gin. You have to be really, really careful with that. And you also have ...

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Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again.Such hilarious visions clamber Thro...

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There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. Tha...

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It was baking hot in the square when we came out after lunch with our bags and the rod-case to go to...

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Two wives despaired of him,’ he said. ‘When he got engaged to Sylvia, she made it a condition that h...

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Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political...

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

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

The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkn...

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There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, ...

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I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed befor...

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Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

My uncle would have about ten pints some nights and then drive us all home. I guess the feeling was ...

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He had probably been thrown out of a wine shop, and it hadn't quite dawned on him yet.

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is ...

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George CarlinWhen Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to ...

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He seemed to be lying on the bed. He could not see very well. Her youthful, rapacious face, with bla...

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There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.

Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?'Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, and I'd ...

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Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing...

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My problem was not only drinking; it was selfishness. The booze was leading me to put myself ahead o...

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I shall always attribute my uncertain start in New Zealand to the fact that I was introduced too ear...

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There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every ...

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Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical act...

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Of the small number of things which I have liked and done well, drinking is by far the thing I have ...

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Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two ...

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It is no longer necessary to preach sonorously of the sinful and deleterious effect of liquor on the...

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The social prestige of wine at table and at the club must be destroyed through lofty example and pol...

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Though at times interested in reforms, notably prohibition (I have never tasted alcoholic liquor), I...

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H. P. LovecraftAgainst Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

And even in the open air the stench of whiskey was appalling. To this fiendish poison, I am certain,...

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H. P. LovecraftLord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters

The second whiskey is always my favorite. From the third on, it no longer has any taste. It's just s...

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[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lun...

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There was something ghost-like and insubstantial about gases to these early chemists. They called li...

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With the smell of beer I try to get the smell of death off me. And only the smell of death will get ...

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Italo CalvinoIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

It starts raining harder, I've got a long way to go walking and pushing that sore leg right along in...

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alcohol played the midwife

The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

She was well primed with a good load of Delahunt's port under her bellyband.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol that's part of society.

Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede.

When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake...

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Jeffrey BernardReach for the Ground: The Downhill Struggle of Jeffrey Bernard

There is this advantage about German beer: it does not make a man drunk as the word drunk is underst...

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Jerome K. JeromeThree Men on the Bummel

Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested -...

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