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• When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

  Flann O'Brien

  Night, Men, Black

  Flann O'Brien (2011). “The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman”, p.118, Souvenir Press

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• sometimes you get run down. sometimes life throws dirt in your eyes and it stings and you can't see for a few minutes. even after you get it out your eyes are all red and your vision is shitty... but eventually, whether through tears or maybe just time... you start to see even clearer than before. life is not always good. which is why music exists. why i believe God exists. and why there's always a pint of coconut milk ice cream in my freezer.

  Hayley Williams

  Running, Believe, Eye

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• here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Mind, Secret, Age

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.227, Delphi Classics

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• Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.

  Dean Karnazes

  Sports, Running, Office

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• When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

  Flann O'Brien

  Horse, Drinking, Men

  Flann O'Brien (2011). “The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman”, p.118, Souvenir Press

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• Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Philosophical, Ignorance

  Aldous Huxley (1969). “Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.

  Taylor Swift

  Mom, Ice Cream, Csi

  "Five Questions with Taylor Swift". www.seventeen.com. January 20, 2009.

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• A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

  George S. Patton

  Witty, Peace, Powerful

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• We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, Two, Drug

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Perfect, Pinball

  Tom Hodgkinson (2007). “How to be Idle”, p.49, Penguin UK

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• Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.

  Flann O'Brien

  Men, Eulogy, Toxic

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• God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love.

  Graham Greene

  Running, Hate, Heart

  "The Collected Edition: The power and the glory".

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• Even the weather seemed to be celebrating; as June approached, the days became cloudless and sultry, and all anybody felt like doing was strolling onto the grounds and flopping down on the grass with several pints of iced pumpkin juice, perhaps playing a casual game of Gobstones or watching the giant squid propel itself dreamily across the surface of the lake.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lakes, June, Games

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• I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Eye, Years, Nurse

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.222, Penguin

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• I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Drinking, Writing

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 29, 1975.

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• Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.

  R.D. Blackmore

  Beer, Afternoon, Half

  R. D. Blackmore (2006). “Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor”, p.114, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

  Thomas Huxley

  Children, Eye, Hands

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.432, Cambridge University Press

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• Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Book, Party

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.613, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The biggest waste of water in the country by far. You spend half a pint and flush two gallons.

  Prince Philip

  Country, Two, Water

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• The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?"

  Chris Matthews

  Basketball, Dream, Jobs

  Chris Matthews (2002). “Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

  A. E. Housman

  Home, Beer, Way

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 62

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• ...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him..." - C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Reading, Beer

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• I'm not one of those people who wakes up and thinks, 'Bring on the day!' I have to have about 7 pints of coffee before I'm even remotely awake. But I love the golden hour in the evening, as hokey as that sounds. Just as the sun is about to set and you get those lovely shadows and everything looks gold and yellow.

  Stacy London

  Coffee, Thinking, Yellow

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• With their endless vacations and pint-sized workweeks, Europe can't produce enough of anything - including more Europeans - to save themselves from doom. So the French and Germans have only one realistic strategy when it comes to revitalizing their comatose economies: Wait for the U.S. economy to rise high enough to float their petits bateaux.

  Denis Boyles

  Vacation, Europe, Waiting

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• I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out.

  Eric Bristow

  Good Night, Drink, Mates

  "Small Talk: Eric Bristow". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.

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