

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

“Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.
- The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse”
― The October Country
- The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse”
― The October Country

“Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They’re the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They’re usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they’re a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can’t trust a man who’s afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It’s damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he’s heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.”
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“A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
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