anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me. — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“You are giving up nothing! You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.” — Liz Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another. — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall between one's immediate desires and long-learned morality.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The support I've had from all Latin people, and Mexico especially, has allowed me to conquer my alcoholism. — Jose Jose Copy Share Image
“[C]ivilians are equally bewildering to the addict. I've watched people drink a glass and a half of wine and push away the… — David Carr Copy Share Image
I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“Now I see that it isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
“The advertise their products in such a fashion as to make it seem wonderful to drink their ethanol products. It does not… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“In sum, the 12 steps are not a road to recovery, let alone the road to recovery. They are, instead, a road… — Charles Bufe Copy Share Image
“Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater. We could breathe and talk to one another. We rowed past schools… — J. Dylan Yates Copy Share Image
“For years I had rejected or been rejected by friends, lovers, family, and God. I was alone and afraid. My life had… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
The subject of eating disorders is very common, and it is an abuse that affects all the people around the sick person,… — Sanna Lenken Copy Share Image
“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Whatever your (unfavorable) situation is, it is a good idea to ask yourself "WHAT YOU WOULD DO if you were free of… — Seth Roberts Copy Share Image
“blinds them to anything and everything that falls outside that system. What they see and feel is only what feeds their addiction… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Hitch: making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,' as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“For an organization that has expressly denied religious standing and publicly claims a secular—even scientific—approach, it is curious that AA retains these… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
This is the welfare generation, and that is incredibly sad. That will be judged in history as being far worse, I believe,… — Andrew Forrest Copy Share Image
“You know one day, you're going to look back on these days. And everyone you went to high school with will either… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess — John Selden Copy Share Image
“The booze makes you a liar and the lies you tell yourself are the biggest.” — J.D. Ruskin Copy Share Image
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