"Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave."
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"Alcohol does not solve problems but becomes a problem in itself"
"Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life."
"[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot."
"And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning."
"Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself."
"I don't drink much alcohol. If it doesn't taste like candy or sparkles, I usually don't drink it."
"The misconception about Hollywood is that it's a crazy drug and alcohol fueled place. It can be but there's also a huge sober community."
"Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty, been drinking liquor out of Mama's titty."
"I think, at a certain point, it's better for women not to have any alcohol because it can make your face, breasts and midsection get very bloated."
"No, no, no, I don't snort no more, I'm tired of waking up on the floor. No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze, then it makes it hard to find the door."
"Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind."
"from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest."
"He gets his courage from the can, it makes him feel like a man."
"Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal."
"Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body."
"I've seen the needle and the damage done."
"When I first tried out some hash, smoked some then. And I'll do it again, if only I had some cash."
"My father? My father left when I was quite young. Well actually, he was asked to leave. He had trouble metabolizing alcohol."
"There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk."