Booze Quotes - Page 2

• I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.

  Charlie Rich

  Thinking, Guy, Stones

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• It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.

  Donal Logue

  Teenager, School, Rocks

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• I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.

  Kim Kardashian

  New Year, Years, Sick

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• I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out.

  David Gest

  Different, Way, Saws

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• Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Science, Intelligent

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

  Paul Newman

  Careers, Smoking, Waking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Drinking, Men, Alcohol

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• Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Night, Talking, Your Side

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.

  Elmore Leonard

  Boat, Broads, Dough

  Elmore Leonard (2009). “Labrava: A Novel”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: 'booze affects material as it does people'.

  Alice Sebold

  Coffee, Dark, People

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• When you're trapped in a small town, the only excitement is the booze.

  Amy Pietz

  Towns, Excitement, Small Town

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze.

  Herman Wouk

  Alcohol, Proud, Kind

  HERMAN WOUK (1955). “MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR”

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• Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Way, Rich, Poor

  Chuck Klosterman (2012). “Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey In Rural North Dakota”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

  Johnny Cash

  Family, Home, Guitar

  Song: A Boy Named Sue, Album: At San Quentin, 1969

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• Don't overdo the booze especially while flying - just because it's there doesn't mean you need to drink it. Everything in moderation.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Mean, Flying, Needs

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.

  Charles Bukowski

  Horse, Get Back

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “The Most Beautiful Woman in Town”, p.193, City Lights Publishers

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• Food is one of life's really great pleasures. My 20th birthday party was all about booze, my 30th birthday was about drugs, and now I realise that my 40s are about food. It's something you appreciate more and more as you get older.

  Alex James

  Party, Appreciate, Drug

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• I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!

  Elif Batuman

  Book, Years, Empires

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• The passion has never left me. I live as two people - myself, Dan Fante, and Bruno Dante or Mickey Di Salvo, or whoever I say I am in one of my books. I can tap that Bruno character any time I need to. He lives inside me like a quiet, simmering pool of magma. Years ago I stopped feeding him with booze and he was kind enough to stop trying to kill me. That's our truce.

  Dan Fante

  Book, Passion, Character

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• When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.

  Denis Johnson

  Fall, Wife, Alcohol

  Denis Johnson (1983). “Angels”, Knopf

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• I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.

  Antonio Lobo Antunes

  Heart, Giving, Bullshit

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• Cheap booze is a false economy.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Alcohol, Economy

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.315, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: "booze affects material as it does people.

  Alice Sebold

  People, Alcohol, Black

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.177, Pan Macmillan

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• Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.

  Sherman Alexie

  Hate, Book, Boys

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently.

  Nelson Algren

  Fighting, Boys, Battle

  Nelson Algren (2010). “A Walk On The Wild Side”, p.26, Canongate Books

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