Drunk Quotes

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I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. — Madeleine L'Engle
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement. — Holbrook Jackson
I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again. — Charles Bukowski
I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and… — Augusten Burroughs
In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On… — Charles Baudelaire
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom. — P.G. Wodehouse
The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of… — George Saunders
If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those… — Unknown Author
A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow… — Winston Churchill
So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that… — William T. Vollmann
I'm not drunk, just a little stoned. — Gerard Way
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah,I drunk me a river since you tore me apart — Tom Waits
I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey. — H. L. Mencken
As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up… — Jostein Gaarder
I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want… — Ellen DeGeneres
Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the… — Kurt Vonnegut
I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the… — Charles Bukowski
I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I… — Charles Bukowski
I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body,… — Charles Bukowski
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation â€”… — Peter De Vries

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