"I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment."
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"The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling."
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"Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking."
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"I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten."
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"Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them."
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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."
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"Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity."
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"Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view."
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"Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs."
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"Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled."
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"I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced the pain; it just gave the pain a life of its own, apart from mine."
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"I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller."
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"Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there."
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"Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!"
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"Out on the street, you never know what you're getting, and suddenly two days later you're beating yourself in the head with a tennis racket, wearing a towel, quoting Poe. You don't want that for your kid. You really don't want that."
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"To be a follower of The Honorable Elijah Mohammed, you have to completely extain from alcohol, or fornication, adultered, killin', stealin', lyin'. I would say that the people are not rejectin' the Honorable Elijah Mohammed because they don't believe what he teach."
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"Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos."
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"I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a quaalude."
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"Valium would have helped that bash."
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"That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol."
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