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Quotes About Intoxication

To me, love was a drug. Jett was my drug.
~ J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love
Alcohol] cures everything, except for stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
El vino convierte al sabio en necio, y al necio en sabio.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Drunk enough to say I love you? - Caryl Churchill
~ Caryl Churchill
I never know as much when I'm sober as I do when I'm drunk.
~ Cecelia Holland
Instead, she poured herself another drink. Tinsley was horrible, yes, but at least she was open about it. Callie couldn't help feeling like Brett and Jenny were just as bad … just more secretive. But maybe it was just the wine talking. Maybe.
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
It is the hour to be drunken! To escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
~ Charles Baudelaire
So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Such poor liquor do make a man's throat feel very melancholy--and is a disgrace to the name of stimmilent.
~ Thomas Hardy
Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Pieter Peeperkorn will now regale himself with a schnapps.
~ Thomas Mann
Sin embargo, no puede decirse que sufriera. Su cabeza y corazón estaban ebrios, y sus pasos seguían las indicaciones del demonio, que se complace en conculcar la dignidad y la razón del ser humano.
~ Thomas Mann
Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The Northern powers are more like administrators, who manipulate other people's history but produce none of their own. They are the stock-jobbers of history, lives are their units of exchange. Lives as they are lived, deaths as they are died, all that is made of flesh, blood, semen, bone, fire, pain, shit, madness, intoxication, visions, everything that has been passing down here forever, is real history.
~ Thomas Pynchon
At the corner store they invaded a hot dog stand and drank pina colada to sober up. It did no good.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Haven't you ever noticed, when you're this Blitzed and you want somebody to show up, they always do?
~ Thomas Pynchon
This, Mrs Munroe, is the scent of intoxication and desire. The perfume of seduction.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
fences, walls, and billboards. I didn't try to read them. I couldn't. My head spun as it had in my drinking
~ Kathy Reichs
A drunken tongue tells what's on a sober mind.
~ KEN ALSTAD
He was drunk enough that he was willing to share his wisdom with me.
~ Kenn Amdahl
He threw the shot of whisky into his mouth and I don't believe the glass even touched his lips.
~ Kenneth Fearing
Rodney wasn't what you'd call eloquent, but he had a couple guys he used to drink with, so we got these bits of quadruple-drunk story: Rodney drunk when he told it, his friends drunk when they heard, then drunk again when they retold it to a bunch of drunks.
~ Kent Meyers
I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together.
~ burton robert