Alcoholism Quote by Diana Trilling Download Open image “Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.” — Diana Trilling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alcoholism Drunkenness Pathology Ruling Writing
Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“Writers choose to drink because of their inability to cope with the daily hassles of being part of a society. Why shouldn’t they? Every… — Thor Benson Copy Share Image
I think that we definitely deal with that issue and don't ignore it, the issue of drink, but that's not where it ends. I… — Debra Winger Copy Share Image
I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. The four twentieth-century writers… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Alcoholism is a disease. People will debate whether it is a disease of the mind, of genetics, or of circumstances. I don't have the… — Eva Marie Copy Share Image
Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease,… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
At best-which is to say, even where our knowledge of a case comes to us only through courtroom evidence-it is difficult for the legal… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people. — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life. — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it. — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking about each… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
“At a time in our culture when violence was achieving a new legitimacy as a form of public assertion, there was perhaps a special… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess. — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another. — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. — John Milton Copy Share Image
If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic. — Ingrid Bengis Copy Share Image
“If you threw Elvis and a scarecrow in a blender, topped the whole thing off with Seagram's 7 and pressed dice, you would make… — Andrea Portes Copy Share Image
The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking,… — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
“Bourbon, Kentucky bourbon especially, is like Dante’s Inferno in a glass, fire walks down your throat, lungs, and heart and everything in between with… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
“There are various reasons why an individual might habitually consume large quantities of alcohol, but they all effectively boil down to the same thing.… — Haruki Murakami 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
I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had honored those… — Jim Hamilton Copy Share Image
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
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