"No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid."
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"Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences."
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"If the principle is, "Let's not get lethal substances out to the public", the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The next one you'd go after is alcohol. Way down the list you'd get to cocaine, and sort of invisibly low you'd get to marijuana."
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"When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice."
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"I'm not a great pothead or anything like that... but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol."
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"Better belly burst than good liquor be lost."
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"No pork, soda pop, cigarettes, alcohol – ever!"
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"I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone."
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"Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun."
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"I got a generation brainwashed to pop pills and smoke pot til they brains rot."
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"If you drink enough beer, everything turns in to a bed."
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"The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick."
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"If ur going to have a war on drugs, have them against ALL drugs, including alcohol, the number one offender."
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"A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow."
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"It's like an angel crying on your tongue."
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"The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour."
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"There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world."
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"the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it."
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"Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable."
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"Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people."
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