Alcoholics Quotes - Page 12

• We're not citizens anymore. We're consumers. That's what we're called. It's just like being an alcoholic and being in denial that you're an alcoholic. We're in denial that each and every one of us is the problem. And until we face up to that, nothing's going to happen.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Citizens, Denial, Faces

  "Don of the Dirtbags: An Interview with Yvon Chouinard". The Vertical Interview, theusualmontauk.com. October 22, 2016.

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• When I hear alcoholics talk about having their demons, I think that they're probably absolutely literally correct.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Demon

  "'Hey, You Can Just Make Stuff Up.' Differences Between Magic And Art: None" by Peter Bebergal, "The Believer", 2013.

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• Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

  Roger Ebert

  Hangover, Drunk, Trying

  Roger Ebert's review of "Smashed", www.rogerebert.com. October 17, 2012.

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• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Recovery, Tired, Health

  "'I Question America' — Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Famous Speech 50 Years Ago" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

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• An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea. Please get me out of jail and I promise I will never drink again. Drink and drive. I will never drink and drive again. I may even start my own group fashioned after MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, but I'll call it AWLTDASH, Alcoholics Who Like to Drink and Stay Home.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Mother, Home

  "Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea". Book by Chelsea Handler, 2008.

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• Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Reality, Garden, Years

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.18, Vintage

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• No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

  Jeannette Walls

  Children, Growing Up, Kids

  "The Glass Castle". Book by Jeannette Walls, 2010.

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• If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

  Caprice Crane

  Glasses, Liquid, Ifs

  Caprice Crane (2011). “With a Little Luck: A Novel”, p.20, Bantam

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• Bruce, you’re an ugly and silly old man. You’re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You’re the type of sad case who preys on vulnerable, weak and stupid women in order to boost his own shattered ego. You’re a mess. You’ve gone wrong somewhere pal.

  Irvine Welsh

  Stupid, Silly, Men

  Irvine Welsh (1998). “Filth”, Random House (UK)

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• Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Beer, Wife

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• Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Food, Drinking, Alcohol

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• I think God is back, I think there is a huge amount of spiritual interest in the country. And I think the bishops are supportive of it because they see people's lives being changed. They see the difference. I see people who've been in prison, whose lives have been messed up, who've been alcoholics, who've been drug addicts, set free and contributing to society.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Spiritual, Country, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I am not an alcoholic. I'm a social catalyst. People pay me to illustrate for other partygoers the chemical process involved in transforming from one persona into another drunker, more fun one. It's a matter of going from dull point A to exciting point B. And I'm a raving success at it. So successful that sometimes I wind up at Mysterious Point C.

  Josh Kilmer-Purcell

  Fun, Successful, Wind

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• Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to be outrageous but really weren't.

  David Sedaris

  Sex, Writing, Class

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• Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.

  George Jones

  Drinking, Character, Lazy

  George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.204, Dell

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• It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

  Raymond Carver

  Liars, Becoming, Thieves

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• I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they had fun. They were real people. They formed the culture of American literature. Hemingway admired Tolstoy, Tolstoy admired Pushkin, and Mailer admired Hemingway. It all flows down. The greats are all connected. One day I'm gonna write a book myself. The first chapter will be about what a rough deal my momma got. She believed in you guys and your society.

  Mike Tyson

  Suicide, Fun, Real

  "Boxing: Tyson's complicated world". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 1, 2002.

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• The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

  Clive James

  Kgb, Secret, Classic

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• Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

  Agatha Christie

  Sympathy, Drunk, Judging

  Agatha Christie (1977). “Starring Miss Marple”, Dodd Mead

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• The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sunshine, Community, Soul

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• I got thrown out of Alcoholics because when the other clients saw me they thought they were having the DT's

  Dave Dutton

  Alcohol, Saws, Clients

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• My mom's Jewish and my dad's Irish Catholic alcoholic, so I whine on the inside.

  Margaret Smith

  Mom, Dad, Drinking

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• The reality is that beer still outsells wine and spirits combined, and makes up 60 of all alcoholic beverage occasions. It's important to keep beer fun, relevant and in step with the changing preferences of adults who enjoy beer.

  Pat McGauley

  Fun, Wine, Beer

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• Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place.

  Jacque Fresco

  New York, Cities, Drug

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