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• I think all the beer I drank in college created an iron bladder.

  Steve Wiebe

  Beer, College, Thinking

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• The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said "Yes, we have no bananas," and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were--and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Running, Years

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• I just drank a fifth of vodka, dare me to drive?

  Eminem

  Vodka, Dare, Fifth

  Song: hi my name is

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• History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.

  Bill Nye

  Past, People, History

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• I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in my love and absorption with the beauty of the world, I sought to learn nothing that could be given back to humanity. I drank of the beauty of the world as a vampire drinks. I was satisfied. I was filled to the brim. But I was dead. And I was changeless.

  Anne Rice

  Humanity, Vampire, World

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.299, Ballantine Books

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• I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn't understand why the happiness never came, couldn't see the flaw in my thinking, couldn't see that alcohol kept me trapped in a world of illusion, procrastination, paralysis. I lived always in the future, never in the present. Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again.

  Heather King

  Drinking, Procrastination, Thinking

  Heather King (2006). “Parched”, p.100, Penguin

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• The best option for me to do was not to move. I tried, and any little nudge or step, it the cramping would get worse. It was the whole left leg ... nearly the whole left side. ... I drank a lot of fluids at halftime. I even changed my uniform.

  LeBron James

  Moving, Nba Championships, Nba Finals

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• John Barrymore was a serious actor who did a great deal of research for all his parts, until, I guess, he was around 50. Then he started drinking heavily . . . So he drank himself to death. It took him 10 years.

  John Carradine

  Drinking, Years, Actors

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• One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice.

  Aldous Huxley

  Names, Triumph, Prejudice

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• At Delphi I prayed
  to Apollo
  that he maintain in me
  the flame of the poem
  and I drank of the brackish
  spring there.

  Denise Levertov

  Prayer, Spring, Flames

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.140, New Directions Publishing

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• It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton; ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.

  Herman Melville

  Yankees, Fog, Doe

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1232, Delphi Classics

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• We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.

  James Boswell

  Drinking, Play, Criticism

  James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”

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• In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything.

  Martin Luther

  Writing, Beer, Loss

  Martin Luther (1967). “Selected Writings of Martin Luther: 1520 523”

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• Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.

  Wesley Strick

  Snakes, Church, Legs

  "Fictional character: Max Cady". "Cape Fear", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. Then I drank and I partied - did all that stuff that might tell you maybe there was a little bit of untruth in that [description]. Now, the surprising thing is that when I say stuff, I actually mean it. I don't have to do the work of trying to formulate my point of view. It just is. And it's surprising how much I love life. I just really have a good time.

  Michael J. Fox

  Love Life, Mean, Views

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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• Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay novelist in the 1940s whom Gore Vidal once considered a rival.

  Edmund White

  Hate, Gay, Men

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• When I was younger I never drank. I never drank, I never did any weed or drugs or anything because I felt it would compromise my position. I was an orphan, and I had a feeling like if I ever hit the ground I may never get back up.

  Ice T

  Weed, Drug, Feelings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything that required emotional commitment. ... I had chosen a profession that thrives on insecurity, and is never far from some source of social intercourse that involves alcohol or drugs.

  Lynda Bellingham

  Sexy, Commitment, Emotional

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• I should also say, in general, I just drank a lot. I shouldn't characterize it as "to get the courage to perform." It was just an in-general nighttime activity. It definitely made it easier when I started doing stand-up. It was just much simpler to do a couple of shots. It made my nerves go away, for the most part. It just was something I sort of relied on for about the first four years.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Couple, Going Away, Nighttime

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• Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound.

  William Wordsworth

  Profound, Secret, Cups

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.345

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• The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.

  James Mackintosh

  Coffee, Men, Mind

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• All my heroes, I guess, like John Wayne and all those guys, they drank and they smoked and did all the manly things. It was expected of you. And now abstinence in all kinds of forms is a part of living. It's a pretty - I don't smoke anymore, I quit that 42 years ago

  Larry Hagman

  Hero, Years, Guy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

  T. S. Eliot

  Coffee, Hours, Sunlight

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For five days, I had no sleep. None. I did not sleep. And the last day, the reason I lasted, I drank 20 Red Bulls, about 20 cups of coffee. I could not function.

  Sam Farha

  Coffee, Sleep, Bulls

  "When We Held Kings" by Eric Raskin, grantland.com. May 22, 2013.

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• He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled on a photograph of his wife with his dying hand goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

  Flann O'Brien

  Goodbye, Suicidal, Home

  "Myles before Myles: a selection of the earlier writings of Brian O'Nolan".

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