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  • #1
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I drink to make other people more interesting.”
    Hemingway, Ernest

  • #2
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

  • #3
    W.C. Fields
    “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
    W.C. Fields

  • #4
    Dorothy Parker
    “I like to have a martini,
    Two at the very most.
    After three I'm under the table,
    after four I'm under my host.”
    Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker

  • #5
    Charles Bukowski
    “I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #6
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #7
    Ernest Hemingway
    “An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #8
    Steve  Martin
    “Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”
    Steve Martin

  • #9
    Sylvia Plath
    “I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #10
    W.C. Fields
    “Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.”
    W.C. Fields

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #12
    “Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.”
    Alex Levine

  • #13
    Stephen Colbert
    “They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am.”
    Stephen Colbert

  • #14
    Stephen  King
    “Do you drink?"
    "Of course,I just said I was a writer.”
    Stephen King

  • #15
    Darynda Jones
    “I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.”
    Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right

  • #16
    Jarod Kintz
    “I don’t drink water, because if water can erode rock, think what it can do to flesh.”
    Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

  • #17
    “If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.”
    Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six

  • #18
    Cassandra Clare
    “Jem grinned. “Where have you been? The Blue Dragon? The Mermaid?”
    “The Devil Tavern if you must know.” Will sighed and leaned against one of the posts of the bed. “I had such plans for the evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was not to be. No sooner had I consumed my third drink in the Devil than I was accosted by a delightful small flower-selling child who asked me for two-pence for a daisy. The price seemed steep, so I refused. When I told the girl as much, she proceeded to rob me.”
    “A little girl robbed you?” Tessa said.
    “Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel.”
    “Easy mistake to make,” Jem said.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #19
    Ogden Nash
    “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.”
    Ogden Nash, Hard Lines

  • #20
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Fill with mingled cream and amber,
    I will drain that glass again.
    Such hilarious visions clamber
    Through the chamber of my brain —
    Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies
    Come to life and fade away;
    What care I how time advances?
    I am drinking ale today.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #21
    Anthony Bourdain
    “They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table.”
    Anthony Bourdain, A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

  • #22
    E.E. Cummings
    “his lips drink water
    but his heart drinks wine”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #23
    Alice Sebold
    “The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: 'booze affects material as it does people'.”
    Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

  • #24
    Brendan Behan
    “I'm a drinker with writing problems.”
    Brendan Behan

  • #25
    Greg Hamerton
    “If you see the dragon fly,
    best you drink the flagon dry.”
    —Zarost”
    Greg Hamerton, Second Sight

  • #26
    Roald Dahl
    “The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.”
    Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood

  • #27
    Kate Bernheimer
    “Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.”
    Kate Bernheimer, The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold

  • #28
    “You speak of my drinking, yet you don't know my thirst”
    Scottish Proverb

  • #29
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned



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