"She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills"
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"I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!"
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"Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me."
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"Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be called drinking, being so thirsty and hell-like that no guzzling of wine and beer, however large, will cool it off, and I fear that such will ever remain Germany's plague, until the day of judgment."
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"Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking"
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"There's a lot of stuff in the club that's like, it's cool there because you're drinking and all you wanna do is do ignorant sh*t."
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"I could never stop drugs, I could never stop drinking, until I received my spiritual awakening."
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"Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying."
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"And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine"
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"The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words."
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"The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking."
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"Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water."
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"I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking."
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"Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking."
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"In your city faded off the brown, NINO. She insists she got more class, WE KNOW."
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"Whatever you wanna drink girl, pick right now. If you can't hold your liquor, better quit right now."
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"I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows."
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"I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories."
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"I lost my one true love. I started drinking."
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"I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity. Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and by secrecy. The miracle of not having to talk about oneself."
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