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• You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.

  James M. Cain

  Bills, Size, Hills

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• My aunts lived on liquor and seldom felt like eating much. I don't know what's wrong about a kid stealing when he's hungry.

  Ethel Waters

  Kids, Aunt, Eating

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• The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time... Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep.

  Muddy Waters

  Party, Sleep, Night

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• It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Football, Sex

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

  John Gay

  Love, Hate, Alcohol

  John Gay (2013). “The Beggar's Opera and Polly”, p.55, OUP Oxford

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• Of all the hot liquors, I regard buttered rum as the worst. I believe that the drinking of it should be permitted only in the "Northwest Passage" and, even there, only by highly imaginative and overenthusiastic novelists.

  David A. Embury

  Drinking, Believe, Novelists

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• Food, sex, and liquor create their own appetite.

  Sheilah Graham Westbrook

  Sex, Addiction, Appetite

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• Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home.

  William Carlos Williams

  Home, Giving, Despair

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.66, New Directions Publishing

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• Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that abound with Sulphurous Salts, (under which I comprehend the Urinous and Volatile Salts of Animal Substances, and the Alcalisate or fixed Salts that are made by Incineration) have the virtue of Restoring it.

  Robert Boyle

  Science, Animal, Substance

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• You and me-we've whored together. We've fought together.And I still dunna understand how ye always seems to know where the money is hidden and the liquor is stored and the scandals are richest.' It's a gift.

  Christina Dodd

  Together, Scandal, Stills

  Christina Dodd (2008). “Into the Shadow: Darkness Chosen”, p.12, Penguin

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• Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Years, Twenties, Problem

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.264, Diversion Books

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• These growth hormones, where can I get a bunch of them? Is there some way that, with electricity, you could stimulate your own growth hormones? Plug yourself in for five minutes, there'd be a little jolt, but you'd get used to it. It wouldn't be bad at all; in fact, you'd get to enjoy it, probably. Then away you'd go, and youth wouldn't be wasted on the young anymore. You'd be 25, with a 95-year-old mind. Granddad would start breaking into liquor stores and staying out late. Hope we have it soon!

  David Lynch

  Years, Growth Hormones, Mind

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• I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!

  Emily Dickinson

  Grief, Feet, Joy

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.115, Harvard University Press

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• Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Drinking, Rain

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Book, Writing, Temptation

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• So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Heart, Wine, Bad Thoughts

  Alexandre Dumas (2014). “The Count Of Monte Cristo (Unabridged)”, p.24, e-artnow sro

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• He liked cheap women, fast cars, late nights, and hard liquor, especially all together. In Jack's view, you are obliged to sin on Saturday night so you'd have something to atone for Sunday morning. Otherwise, you'd be putting the preacher out of business.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Morning, Sunday, Night

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.56, St. Martin's Press

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• I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Enemy, Traffic

  Billy Sunday, William A. Sunday (2009). “The Sawdust Trail: Billy Sunday in His Own Words”, p.96, University of Iowa Press

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• Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

  Seneca the Younger

  Love, Learning, Knowledge

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• Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise, and orderly arranged, after the manner of the copper or tin worms, which distillers use to cool their liquors as they distil over. The whole circumference of each of these streaks was about the thickness of a hair of one's head. ... all consisted of very small green globules joined together: and there were very many small green globules as well. [The earliest recorded observation of the common green alga Spyrogyra.]

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Wise, Science, Hair

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• Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'

  Bill Maher

  Iraq, President, Pouring

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• They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.

  Bud Abbott

  Long, House, Havens

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

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• I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there... I told the stewardess liquor for three... Who are the other two?...Oh, there are no other two

  Sean Connery

  Beer, Two, Able

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• I can pick a lock. How do you think I got into my parents' liquor cabinet in middle school?

  Richelle Mead

  School, Thinking, Parent

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• It's like living in a retirement home! Clarence is taking a nap right now, and he eats at five. It's so boring." "You've only been here for two days." "And that's been more than enough. The only thing keeping me alive is that he keeps a hefty supply of liquor on hand. But at the rate I'm going, that'll be gone by the weekend. Jesus Christ, I'm climbing the walls." His eyes fell on the cross at my neck. "Oh. Sorry. No offense to Jesus.

  Richelle Mead

  Jesus, Retirement, Wall

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