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• I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record.

  Dylan Thomas

  Believe, Records, Eighteen

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• I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut'; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Morning, Uncles

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.554, Pan Macmillan

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• Seventeen whiskeys. A record, I think.

  Dylan Thomas

  Thinking, Records, Last Words

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• I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.

  Libba Bray

  Drink, Sherry

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Fuuuuuuuuuuck." Kynan scrubbed his face. "I could use a double shot of whiskey right now." "I'm sure Flicka keeps hard liquor behind the bar." "Flicka?" "I don't want to say her name." "So you're calling her horse names?" Ky coked a dark eyebrow. "I can't wait to see how she reacts to Mr. Ed.

  Larissa Ione

  Horse, Dark, Eyebrows

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• Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.

  Davy Crockett

  Moving, Fuel, Members

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• It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.

  Tom Waits

  Travel, Night, Flames

  Tom Waits (2007). “The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983”, Ecco

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• Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.

  James J. Hill

  Funny, Giving, Sweden

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• The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Bottles, Cupboards

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• Hormones were as potent as whiskey, and twice as sneaky.

  Linda Howard

  Sneaky, Hormones

  Linda Howard (2012). “Now You See Her”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• I must not mix champage, whiskey, and gin. (Repeated fifty times to fill column.)

  Westbrook Pegler

  Media, Fifty, Columns

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• What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village and hamlet in the States, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition! Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots? "He got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much." Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Army, Cities, Government

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.438, Harvard University Press

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• She spilled whiskey on her shirt, she gon have to get it cleaned. She been going way to hard, someone has to intervene.

  Drake

  Party, Drinking, Humble

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• I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief-- even the dogs were howling.

  Sara Gruen

  Dog, Uncles, Grief

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• We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Philosophy, Wine, Action

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.48, BookBaby

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• Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Travel, New York, Home

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• Knowing he [Bob Serber] was going to the [first atom bomb] test, I asked him how he planned to deal with the danger of rattlesnakes. He said, 'I'll take along a bottle of whiskey.' … I ended by asking, 'What would you do about those possibilities [of what unknown phenomena might cause a nuclear explosion to propagate in the atmosphere]?' Bob replied, 'Take a second bottle of whiskey.'

  Edward Teller

  Knowing, Atmosphere, Causes

  "Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics". Book by Edward Teller and Judith L. Shoolery, 2001.

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• Johnny Rivers...returned to L.A. to accept a lucrative offer from Elmer Valentine to open at his lavish new nightclub based upon the popular European discotheque concept. Johnny Rivers at the Whisky A Go-Go turned Hollywood upside down. His first Imperial album, "Johnny Rivers At The Whisky A Go-Go," (produced by Lou Adler) was high in the charts for 45 weeks in 1964.

  Glenn A. Baker

  Valentine, Rivers, Hollywood

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• When LOVE played the still hipper Whisky A Go-Go, further west along Sunset, Arthur Lee claims they 'started the whole hippy thing' in tandem with an in-crowd of freaks led by aging beatnik sculptor Vito Paulekas. It was Vito, Carl Franzoni, Sue, Beatle Bob, Bryan Maclean and me...people would come to Ben Frank's to hang out with us after we played shows.

  Barney Hoskyns

  Sunset, People, Crowds

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• It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

  Mark Twain

  Gambling, Long, Sin

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• Well I was born a rambler friends, and I intend to die that way. It could be twenty years from now it could be most any day. But if there ain't no whiskey and wimen lord behind those heavenly doors, I'm gonna take my chances down below and of that you can be sure.

  Townes Van Zandt

  Doors, Years, Twenties

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• It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.

  Ariel Gore

  Sex, Writing, Burritos

  Ariel Gore (2007). “How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights”, p.41, Three Rivers Press

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• You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man.

  Bruce Aidells

  Humorous, Drinking, Nursing

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• Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!

  Bertolt Brecht

  Moon, Bye, Alabama

  Bertolt Brecht (1990). “Brecht Collected Plays: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mohagony and the Seven Deadly Sins :”, Methuen

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• The giant imaginary bottle of whiskey is with me.

  Rocko

  Giants, Bottles, Imaginary

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