"There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a drunkard when he prays."
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"Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism."
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"I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking."
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"I think everyone can relate to the werewolf myth - because we've all, as a result of alcohol, drugs, exhaustion, rage, gone off the leash and come to regret it later. I appeal to this psychologically - the unleashed id - but with a biological cause; I'm hopefully making possible supernatural circumstances."
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"Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms."
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"Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!"
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"Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution."
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"The white horse of heroin will ride you to hell."
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"Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers."
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"He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone."
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"I don't drink hard liquor anymore, but I sometimes order Lagavulin just for the smell. It's so good. It's unbelievable."
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"Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other"
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"And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic."
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"All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times."
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"The main difference between marketing and fraud is that criminals have to pay for their own alcohol."
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"It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.'"
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"It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out."
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"Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument."
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"There's rumors in the Twittersphere. If I find out that any of my officer is giving out drug and alcohol I send their ass to prison with a snorkel duct-taped to their mouth and me s***ing down that Snorkel"
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"Addiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol or to anything else."
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