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"There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one."
"Liquor is such a nice substitute for facing adult life."
"Lately I been drinking like there's a message in a bottle"
"Three highballs, and I think I'm St. Francis of Assisi."
"I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance."
"Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in another face, totally and enchantingly female. They had it over us: they planned much better and were better organized. While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding - whether to accept us, discard us, exchange us, kill us or whether simply to leave us. In the end it hardly mattered; no matter what they did, we ended up lonely and insane."
"A lot of people that are in the disease of drinking and using can be caught up on the denial aspect of it. I don't have a problem with that. I am very sensitive. I can just feel when things are getting out of control and I go, 'Oh, you have to deal with this. Because you can die.' I've always sort of had that."
"It's like an angel crying on your tongue."
"I'm drinking doubles now that you're running around single again."
"Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it."
"There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world."
"the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it."
"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."
"And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink."
"Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer."
"I stopped drinking when I had children because I wanted to be awake and aware. I did not want to be going, you know, daddy loves you and then drop my head on the table. I do not want to miss anything that they do or say. It is important to me."
"Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it."
"I was always the type of drug user that I had no moderation. When I was smoking and drinking, I was full on smoking and drinking. And I am also the type of drug user where I do smoke and drink, there's no creativity in terms of my writing process. I would just stare at the paper for hours and nothing would get done."
"Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking."
"Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by"
