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Alcohol Quotes - Page 15

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

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

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.

Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.129, Infobase Publishing

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Jonathan Swift (1761). “The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes”, p.322

I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.

"Heath Ledger on 'Candy'". Interview With Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. November 29, 2006.

Without alcohol I'd be richer by two million dollars that went to pay lawyer's fees.

Grace Slick, Andrea Cagan (2008). “Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir”, p.65, Hachette UK

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

Paris Review Interview (1981), later quoted in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fifth Series", 1981.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

'The Church-porch', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.

"The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.