"I ain't no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me."
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"You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act."
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"It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead."
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"The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help they have no hope."
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"I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night."
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"A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs."
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"Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet - who was only another male mammal - is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent."
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"I'm drowning in whiskey river."
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"I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me."
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"There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are."
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"The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk."
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"Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end."
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"Alcohol is not the answer to all questions"
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"I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more."
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"I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful."
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"He that drinks fast, pays slow. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. There can't be good living where there is not good drinking."
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"I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it."
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"When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast."
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"The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism."
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"Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day."
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