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• He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dust, Poverty, Spirit

  c.1883 Complete Poems, no.1587 (first published 1890).

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• If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

  Clement Freud

  Funny, Witty, Giving Up

  Quoted in Observer (London), 27 Dec. 1964.

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• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Funny, New Year, Drinking

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2011). “On Booze (New Directions Pearls)”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

  George Farquhar

  Food, Sleep, Beer

  'The Beaux' Stratagem' (1707) act 1, sc. 1

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Wine, Thinking, Bottles

  M.F.K. Fisher (2012). “Love in a Dish . . . and Other Culinary Delights by M.F.K. Fisher”, p.76, Counterpoint Press

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  An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Drinking, Beer

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind.

  Maurice Gibb

  Stupid, Dumb, Mind

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

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• Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

  W. C. Fields

  Food, Drinking, Beer

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

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• I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.

  Adrian Rogers

  Sorry, Drinking, Beer

  Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2012). “What Every Christian Ought to Know”, p.25, B&H Publishing Group

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• Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.

  W. C. Fields

  Inspirational, Funny, Party

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• She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wine, Quality, Meals

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• Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Drinking, Wine, Scotch

  "Facepaint, champagne and antelope skin - writers' oddball quirks revealed" by Charlotte Seager, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2015.

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  An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

  Dylan Thomas

  Funny, Drinking, Food

  Dictionary of 20th Century Quotations quoted by Nigel Rees. Fontana London (1987)

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• I never really had stage nerves but I did have had trouble getting up to the right energy level. For a long time I drank. I drank up until 1982 and then I gave up alcohol.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Long, Alcohol, Energy

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Drinking, Food

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.347, Bantam Classics

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Football, Country

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Country, Real, Drinking

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

  Dudley Moore

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

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• Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.

  Wilhelm II

  Funny, Kings, Women

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• I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.

  Peter Blegvad

  Artist, Lazy, Too Much

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I made mistakes, I drank too much, I smoked some crack some time. What can I say? I made a mistake, I’m human.

  Rob Ford

  Mistake, Cracks, Too Much

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• We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Happiness, Romantic

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

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• This is one night I wish I smoked and drank.

  Grace Kelly

  Night, Wish, Oscars

  Grace Kelly's Oscar acceptance speech, 1954.

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