"Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness."
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"I believe that at birth everyone gets the capacity for a certain amount of drugs and alcohol, everyone the same, you can do it all between 15 and 19 like I did, or you can stretch it out over 70 years."
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"It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home."
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"Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?"
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"Scientists are coming to recognise the effects of the mind on physical health. The sense of relaxation associated with inner peace involves not only being physically at ease. If you are nagged by worry or seething with anger, you’re not really relaxed. The key to relaxation is peace of mind. The relaxation gained from alcohol, drugs or just listening to music may seem attractive, but it doesn’t last."
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"The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal."
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"During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!"
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"Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough."
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"He that drinks fast, pays slow."
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"People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!"
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"I'm very happy by myself - I'm lucky in that way - if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it."
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"Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly."
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"I've tried it long ago, with hashish and peyote. Fascinating, yes, but no good, no. This, as we find in alcohol, is an escape from awareness, a cheat, a momentary substitution, and in the end a destruction of it."
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"There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer."
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"One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them."
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"Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering."
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"There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."
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"it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance"
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"Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine."
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"I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking."
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