Drinking Quotes - Page 23

• Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.

  Marguerite Duras

  Thinking, Killing, Wanting To Die

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.15, Grove Press

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• All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

  Beatrice Webb

  Alcohol, Lines, Force

  1917 Health of Working Girls, ch.10.

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• The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle.

  Ginger Rogers

  Fun, Swimming, Thinking

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• The earth is soaked and soggy with rain. Everything is drinking its fill and the surplus gluts the drains. The sky is full of it and lies low over the earth, heavy and dense. Even the sea is wetter than usual!

  Emily Carr

  Lying, Rain, Sea

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.52, D & M Publishers

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• when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.

  Margaret Halsey

  Flocks, Spokes, Euphemism

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• Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

  Kay Boyle

  Alcoholism, Deceiver, One Thing

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• The only way to really have safe sex is to abstain. From drinking.

  Wendy Liebman

  Sex, Safe, Way

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• Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Simple, Animal, Moral Fiber

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.

  Amy Sedaris

  Party, Cat, Clothes

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• nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking.

  Isabelle Holland

  Cost, Stop Drinking, Higher

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• Whoever I had become had to die.

  Craig Ferguson

  Alcohol, Dies

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• Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.

  Marian Engel

  House, Alcohol, Grew Up

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• the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  War, Years, Ebb And Flow

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• The wages of Gin is Debt.

  Ethel Mumford

  Wages, Debt, Wit

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• Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

  Joan Acocella

  Alcohol, Comforting, May

  "A Few Too Many" by Joan Acocella, www.newyorker.com. May 26, 2008.

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• It is strange that a person may find it easy to protect himself from: eating Haraam, oppression and injustice, adultery, theft, drinking khamr (alcoholic drinks), and from unlawful looking, but it is hard for him to restrain the movement of his tongue. How often do we see people who are very cautious about falling into shameful deeds or injustice, but their tongue lashes against the living and the dead and they don't mind it?

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Fall, People, Mind

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• I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my friends was going to grad school at the same time and I heard a lot of stories about drinking, too. I feel like everyone was having affairs.

  Jami Attenberg

  Book, Writing, School

  "Go Forth (Vol. 10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

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• Some people work with a trainer, some people work with a stylist. I work with a celebrity fecalist. A fecalist is basically a person who comes and collects my stools, and then examines them to see if I'm eating right and if I should be drinking more water and what my moods should be.

  Tina Fey

  People, Water, Stylist

  "Tina Fey on Top". Interview with Amy Poehler, www.marieclaire.com. April 10, 2008.

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• I get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.

  Richard Simmons

  Morning, Meditation Practice, Espresso

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• Do you know why more people don't sober up? Because they don't wear their livers on the outside. If everyone wore their liver on their forehead, say, it would be on full view and people would say, 'Heffens, Jock, that liver of yours is looking fair hobnailed,' and they would get shamed into doing something about it.

  M.C. Beaton

  Sober Up, Views, People

  M.C. Beaton (2009). “Death of a Poison Pen”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• Good liquor is not cheap. Cheap liquor is not good.

  Dorothy Draper

  Liquor

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• It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.

  Daphne Merkin

  Reading, Self, Imagination

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• Kim Jong Il made his staff call him “dear” and spent the day drinking cognac. It's like I have a twin, ladies and gentlemen.

  David Letterman

  Gentleman, Cognac, Kim

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• If liking Katy Perry and drinking margaritas is gay, then who wants to be straight?!

  James Franco

  Gay, Want, Margarita

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• Had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.

  Nicki Minaj

  Would Be, Juice, Pickles

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