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

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

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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I had to feel sorry for Bubba's wife. In AA we called it denial. We take the asp to our breast and s...

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The life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no ...

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

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What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disco...

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Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, t...

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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall i...

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She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was t...

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A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real al...

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholi...

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An alcoholic is someone who can violate his standards faster than he can lower them.

When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds ...

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Roy Blount, Jr.Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion

It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and se...

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The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand ...

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Spurred by Amy’s death I’ve tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm...

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What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I co...

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Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing

The GeraniumWhen I put her out, once, by the garbage pail,She looked so limp and bedraggled,So fooli...

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But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

To begin with, there is an almost compulsive promiscuity associated with homosexual behavior. 75% of...

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People with family histories of alcoholism tend to have lower levels of endorphins- the endogenous m...

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Andrew SolomonThe Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and ma...

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One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.

Drinking gave me a rush of confidence, and for a boy hounded by feelings of inadequacy, the buzz was...

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Brennan ManningAll Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir

ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously.

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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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

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

Some lurid things have been said about me—that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosex...

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Those unexpected morality lessons provided by the trip had jolted me into some kind of action. It wa...

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

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I ha...

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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

I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could...

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

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattere...

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

This is a good place," he said."There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.