"Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you want, so don't worry about me."
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"I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer."
"I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me."
"stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover."
"In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking."
"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation."
"The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it."
"Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live."
"I often joke with my audiences that I make most of my income on a ski pole. People smile but they get my point. You need to make time for your genius to flow. We get our creative bursts, those idea torrents that take our business and personal lives to the next level, while we are skiing or drinking coffee in a Starbucks or walking in the woods or meditation with a sunrise. Those pursuits are not a waste of time. Creativity comes when you are relaxed, happy and enjoying the moment. And when it comes, it brings ideas that rock your world."
"What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions."
"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."
"There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink."
"Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion."
"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough."
"I've got different ideas of complete happiness. But one is being by myself out in a forest, completely happy. Another is walking with a dog in some nice place. And three is sitting around preferably a fire, but not necessarily, and drinking red wine with friends and telling stories."
"Drinking in a honky tonk, just kicking hippies asses and raising hell."
"Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't."
"Don't be impatient when it takes too long. Or drink it all even when it tastes to strong."
"Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same."
"When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious."