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"Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing."
"No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink."
"There's damsels in distress out there, and we got all this beer."
"The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high."
"I cannot live without books."
"I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death."
"The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with a beard, is wailing beer-caps of bottles and jamming on the cash register and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, its béat, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown."
"At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets."
"If I saved all the money I spent on beer, I'd spend it on beer."
"Beer is made by men, wine by God."
"Good people drink good beer. Just look around any public barroom and you will see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it."
"Drinking is a way of ending the day."
"I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds."
"This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer."
"One more drink and I'd have been under the host."
"In the days when Glastonbury was an alternative festival, it was quite interesting. Now it is the most bourgeois thing on the planet ... we'll leave the middle classes to do Glastonbury and the rest of the great unwashed will decamp to Knebworth and drink a lot of beer and have fun."
"Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer."
"Blessings of your heart, you brew good ale."
"And I will make it felony to drink small beer."