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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
Scotch

"We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
Scotch

"The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance."

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Goldwin Smith Historian, Writer
Scotch

"Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?"

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John Green Author, YouTuber
Scotch

"You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home?" "No, sir," Gus said. "We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water."

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Martin Shaw Actor
Scotch

"If someone opens a glorious Scotch or a bottle of wine, it's no more than a whimsy, but after nearly 40 years I'm used to it. I don't find it difficult not being drunk when other people are, but I get uncomfortable because they're uncomfortable with where I am."

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