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"Will you stop drinking whiskey? Let me plead with you to do so. And if the sisters would not think it oppressive, I would ask them to not drink quite so much strong tea."
"Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders."
"Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it."
"Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference."
"Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair."
"Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else."
"Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die."
"Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the main roadblock to drinking that clear cool glass of love."
"Dead drunk is the term I think of, insensible, neither cool nor warm, without a head or a foot. To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool."
"Even on the Serengeti, it ain't a barbecue if there ain't some kind of beer."
"I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve."
"It's been about a week without alcohol of any kind. I'm enjoying my new, clean-living lifestyle."
"I need the anesthetic qualities of the local fire water."
"Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. "So that I may forget," replied the tippler. "Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. "Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head. "Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. "Ashamed of drinking!"
"I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad."
"A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk."
"Come swish around my pretty punk And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my fill."
"First there was a young guy sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother, then there was an older fatter person sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother."
"A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes."
"When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig."
