"I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities."
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"The mind/body connection is like a telephone line - many telephone lines, in fact, teeming with information. Small things like drinking an orange juice with pulp or eating an apple is being received like a telephone call to your genes. Every thought, every thing you eat, every single little thing can tweak your genes activity towards healing."
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"I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other."
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"I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other; besides, I like to enjoy my life at all sides and ends, which cannot be done by one that suffers himself to be the slave of a single propensity."
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"Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is."
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"When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out."
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"To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards."
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"And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic."
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"I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias."
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"It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.' Because you have that initial warm feeling going, 'Oh, I remember this'. And your body does, too. And your body goes, 'Yeah, so do I'. Then the demon voice comes, 'Yeah, so do I. You know what would be great? You know we bought a little bottle before? A full bottle would be wonderful'."
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"It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.'"
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"Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments."
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"As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body."
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"My mum did encourage me, perhaps most of all by never discouraging me from anything I wanted to do. If you tell kids not to, they're going to do it in the end anyway. I'd finished all that staying-out-all-night-drinking bit when everybody else came to it. Probably why I don't like alcohol today. I had it all by the age of 10."
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"That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust."
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"I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking."
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"Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it NOW. But your airways ignore you. They collapse, tighten, squeeze, and suddenly you're breaithing through a drinking straw. Your mouth closes and your lips purse and all you can manage is a croak. Your hands wriggle and shake. Somewhere a dam has cracked open and a flood of cold sweat spills, drenches your body. You want to scream. You would if you could. Cut you have to breathe to scream. Panic."
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"I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world."
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"A quote about drinking is a joy forever"
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"You've been thinking and I've been drinking."
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