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John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs QUOTES

John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs QUOTES

21 " I still read the books to-day, but never again shall I read them with that old glory of youthful passion when I harked to the call from over and beyond that whispered me on to win to the mystery at the back of life and behind the stars. "

― Jack London , John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs

22 " A cocktail or two, or several, I found, cheered me up for the foolishness of foolish people. A cocktail, or several, before dinner, enabled me to laugh whole-heartedly at things which had long since ceased being laughable. The cocktail was a prod, a spur, a kick, to my jaded mind and bored spirits. "

― Jack London , John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs

23 " some maundering fancy of going out with the tide suddenly obsessed me "

― Jack London , John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs

24 " Some maundering fancy of going out with the tide suddenly obsessed me. "

― Jack London , John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs

25 " The great majority of habitual drinkers are born not only without desire for alcohol, but with actual repugnance toward it. Not the first, nor the twentieth, nor the hundredth drink, succeeded in giving them the liking. But they learned, just as men learn to smoke; though it is far easier to learn to smoke than to learn to drink. They learned because alcohol was so accessible. "

― Jack London , John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs

26 " God is bad, truth is a cheat, and life is a joke. "

― Jack London , John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs