"No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk."
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"No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap."
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"It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing?"
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"I was once like you, enlightened and "rational", I too scoffed at lovers, Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery. No one is safe! Watch out."
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"High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional."
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"There isn’t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you’re with some girl that really knocks you out."
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"As he followed Bill back to the others a wry though came to him, born no doubt of the wine he had drunk. He seemed set on course to become just as reckless a godfather to Teddy Lupin as Sirius Black had been to him."
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"I never played drunk. Hung over, yes, but never drunk."
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"Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets."
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"It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously."
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"It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it."
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"I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?"
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"Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations."
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"Why don't we get drunk and screw?"
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"I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it."
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"There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance."
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"About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen."
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"Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!"
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"Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling."
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"When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing."
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