Fitzgerald Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be…

— Heather King

“He could still remember how the first sip of wine made him feel.”

— Dianne Harman

“But I also stayed up weeknights after they had retired and drank myself into bed. My thinking about drinking had undergone a great change.…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“Some people drink to forget. He drank to remember more selectively.”

— Janus Lucky

“He used books the same way he used alcohol: to pretend that he was not here, and if he was here, that he was…

— Joe Queenan

“Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“..he began drinking heavily and lived in a way which a friend described as making sense "only if he had no expectations of being…

— P.D. James

“There were two types of drinkers: those who drank to enhance their personalities, and those who sought to rid themselves of something.”

— Haruki Murakami

“When he looked back at the menu as an old man, it brought back everything; the food, the wine, the private dining room, the…

— Anne Fadiman

“This was yet another good thing about drinking, of course: not that drinking made you forget things, but that it made it possible for…

— Brock Clarke

“He somehow saw that to her being drunk had its whole long sentimental history, whereas to him it was a freakish novelty.”

— Alan Hollinghurst

“He drank, for the same reason he wrote second-rate science fiction. Not to forget but to remember, to open the past and find himself…

— Joanne Harris