"We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar."
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"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
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"When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel."
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"Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk."
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"I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk."
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"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."
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"I know what I think but I don't know how to put it into words. Maybe I could get a little bit drunk and dance it for you."
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"Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings."
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"Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment."
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"My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round."
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"[Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies."
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"Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit."
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"Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I'll prove it to you. You're at a ball game or a concert, and someone's really violent and agressive and obnoxious, are they drunk or are they smoking pot?"
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"Bad girl, drunk by six, kissing someone else's lips. Smoked to many cigarettes today, I'm not happy when I act this way."
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"Getting drunk . . . you're in complete control up to a point. It's your choice, every time you take a sip. You have a lot of small choices. It's like . . . I guess it's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . ."
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"Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself."
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"It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again."
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"If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar."
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"He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk."
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"The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk."
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