No longer is drinking an art with Americans; once they drank for the taste, but now they drink only for the effect.… — Alice-Leone Moats 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
As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
“Big Daddy: What makes you so restless, have you got ants in your britches? Brick: Yes, sir... Big Daddy: Why? Brick: -… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I've just completed a five-year period that can perhaps best be called a breathing spell. A time of getting my health back… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“To begin with, there is an almost compulsive promiscuity associated with homosexual behavior. 75% of homosexual men have more than 100 sexual… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink!… — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
“The booze makes you a liar and the lies you tell yourself are the biggest.” — J.D. Ruskin Copy Share Image
Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief. — David Cook Copy Share Image
I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide. — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
A few years ago, when I was writing songs for my first album, I was staying with Michael Feinstein as I often… — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it. — Marian Engel Copy Share Image
Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“Un uomo intelligente a volte è costretto a ubriacarsi per passare il tempo tra gli idioti.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“One weekend it rained for 48 hours without stopping. The rain beat like bony fingers against the window panes. Tap. Tap. Tap.… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“When was the last time you woke up and wished you'd had just one more drink the night before? I have never… — Meredith Bell Copy Share Image
“AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, "The only requirement for AA membership is a… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“She’s happier than Nicola. That’s probably true. Alcoholics can stop drinking but what is there for the children of alcoholics? Is it… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
