"Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!"
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"Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today."
"Your very silence shows you agree."
"If you drink enough beer, everything turns in to a bed."
"I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight"
"Everything was a trap: women, drugs, whiskey, wine, scotch, beer - even beer - cigars, and cigarettes. Traps: Work or no work. Traps: Artistry or no artistry; everything sucked you into some spiderweb. I disdained the use of the needle for the same reason that I disdained some so-called beautiful women - the price was far beyond the measure of the worth. I didn't want to hustle that hard."
"2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die."
"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."
"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet."
"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
"Prejudice is opinion without judgement."
"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason."
"There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question."
"If she drinks beer, she's a keeper."
"O.K." "Gee I'm glad." "Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave it all in the river." "You'll love it, Frank. We'll get a place up in the mountains, where it's cool, and then, after I get my act ready, we can go all over the world with it. Go as we please, do as we please, and have plenty of money to spend. Have you got a little bit of gypsy in you?" "Gypsy? I had rings in my ears when I was born."
"Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it."
"Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs."
"I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years."
"He that drinks fast, pays slow."
"There are more old drunkards than old doctors."