Drinking quotes
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"Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed."
"When the wine goes in, strange things come out."
"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."
"He leaned over and kissed me. A long, deep kiss filled with promise and passion. I loved the way he kissed me. Like he was drinking in the taste of me and still coming back thirsty."
"It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice."
"As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine."
"Stay keeping my cup full so I'm extra charged like a state tax."
"Shots came, I don't know where they was sent from. Probably some bad hoes I'm bouta take the hint from"
"Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism' as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking."
"When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat."
"It was sad, it was sad, it was sad. When Betty came back we didn't sing or laugh, or even argue. We sat drinking in the dark, smoking cigarettes, and when we went to sleep, I didn't put my feet on her body or she on mine like we used to. We slept without touching. We had both been robbed."
"My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars."
"Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others."
"I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before."
"I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long."
"If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst."
"I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean."
"I've been drinking. Now I'm going to drink some more."
"The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse."
"My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer."
