drinker QUOTES

1 " I'm a drinker with writing problems. "

2 " I am a drinker with writing problems. "

― Brendan Behan

3 " For you born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word" - Catherine Drinker Bowen "

4 " I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the "

5 " And finally
the glass that contains and spills this stuff continually
while the drinker hunches before it, while the bartender gathers
up empties, gives back the drinker's own face. Who knows what it looks like;
who cares whether or not it was young once, or ever lovely,
who gives a shit about some drunk rising to stagger toward
the bathroom, some man or woman or even lost
angel who recklessly threw it all over—heaven, the ether,
the celestial works—and said, Fuck it, I want to be human? "

― Kim Addonizio

6 " The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a man, and within five minutes he explained that he had just been released from prison. Another drinker told me that his wife had passed away, and he had recently suffered a heart attack, and now he hoped that he would die within the year. I learned that there's no reliable small talk in America; at any moment a conversation can become personal. "

― Peter Hessler

7 " There isn’t a name for my situation. Firstly because I decided to kill myself. And then because of this idea:

I don’t have to do it immediately.

Whoosh, through a little door. It’s a limbo.

I need never answer the phone again or pay a bill. My credit score no longer matters. Fears and compulsions don’t matter. Socks don’t matter. Because I’ll be dead. And who am I to die? A microwave chef. A writer of pamphlets. A product of our time. A failed student. A faulty man. A bad poet. An activist in two minds. A drinker of chocolate milk, and when there’s no chocolate, of strawberry and sometimes banana. "

― D.B.C. Pierre

8 " There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer. "

― Charles Bukowski , Hot Water Music

9 " 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

10 " To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find. "

― Caroline Knapp , Drinking: A Love Story

11 " It is no longer necessary to preach sonorously of the sinful and deleterious effect of liquor on the human mind and body; the essential evil is recognised scientifically, and only the sophistry of conscious immorality remains to be combated. Brewers and distillers still strive clumsily to delude the public by the transparent misstatements of their advertisements, and periodicals of easy conscience still permit these advertisements to disgrace their pages; but the end of such pernicious pretension is not remote. The drinker of yesterday flaunted his voice before all without shame; the average drinker of today must needs resort to excuses. "

― H.P. Lovecraft

12 " A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking "

― Anne Enright , The Gathering

13 " For the wine of Clochemerle is at once exquisite and treacherous; it charms first the nose, then the palate, finally the entire man. Mark well that if it makes a man drunk it does not do so malignantly. It produces an enchanting light-heartedness, an intellectual sparkle which liberates the drinker from the constraints and conventions which bind him in his daily life. "

― Gabriel Chevallier ,

14 " Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would every inebriate would if he could. "

15 " The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake. "