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#1

“The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

tags: alcohol, drinks, enjoyment, relaxation, whiskey, whisky

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#2

“Whisky is liquid sunshine.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: drinks, enjoyment, sunshine, whiskey, whisky

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#3

“A dead body reminds me a bit of a bottle of whisky. If you drop the bottle and it cracks, what’s inside pours out. It’s only natural.”
― Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

tags: bottle, cracks, dead, death, metaphor, natural, nature, whisky

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#4

“Also I wanted the whisky for itself, because I loved the taste of it and because, being as happy as I could be, it made me feel even better.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa

tags: happyness, whisky

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#5

“Ah," Anselmo took the cup, put his head back and let it run down his throat. He looked at Maria standing holding the bottle and winked at her, tears coming from both his eyes. "That," he said. "That." Then he licked his lips. "That is what kills the worm that haunts us.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

tags: alcohol, drinking-your-troubles-away, scotch, whisky

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#6

“Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.”
― Ernest Hemingway, QUOTABLE HEMINGWAY: An A to Z Glossary of Quotations from Ernest Hemingway

tags: kiss, life, quotes, whiskey, woman

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#7

“Life’s too short for this shit,’ he had announced to his empty apartment, and that had been the end of the great whiskey experiment.”
― Stephen King, Insomnia

tags: whiskey, whisky

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#8

“There is indeed one person who can help solve “writer’s block”. His name is Mr Johnnie Walker.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: alcohol, whiskey, whisky, writer-s-block, writing

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#9

“My life is ruled by four W’s: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: life-and-living, whisky, work, writing

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#10

“While I can’t walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

tags: alcohol, whiskey, whisky

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#11

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, whiskey

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#12

“I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced the pain, it just gave the pain a life of its own, apart from mine.”
― Haruki Murakami

tags: whiskey

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#13

“Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

tags: whiskey

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#14

“The second whiskey is always my favorite. From the third on, it no longer has any taste. It's just something to pour into your stomach.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

tags: alcohol, whiskey

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#15

“Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

tags: drugs, love, nowhere, religion, whiskey

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#16

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
― Mark Twain

tags: whiskey

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#17

“There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.”
― Raymond Chandler

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#18

“Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.”
― Compton Mackenzie

tags: love, whiskey

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#19

“Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: ulysses-s-grant, whiskey

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#20

“Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.”
― Thomas Jefferson

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#21

“Does love make the world go around? Well yes. But whiskey makes it go around twice as fast.”
― James Hauenstein

tags: drinking, drinking-alcohol, drinking-quotes, liquid-courage, puking, regurgitates, scotch, spewing, whiskey

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#22

“The real tragedy of life was that whiskey didn’t even burn anymore. Made me shake my head sometimes, but I still drank it because I liked the taste.”
― Dave Matthes, Mercy

tags: dystopian, life, post-apocalyptic, tragedy, western, whiskey

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#23

“I drank whiskey because I was depressed, and whiskey made sure I stayed depressed.”
― Donald Hall, A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety

tags: alcohol, depression, drinking, self-medication, whiskey

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#24

“The whiskey kicked like a mugger.”
― Ken Bruen, Blitz

tags: booze, drinking, metaphor, whiskey

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#25

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: drinking

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#26

“I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.”
― Ava Gardner

tags: death

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#27

“Courage is a vitamin best swallowed with whiskey.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

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