Short-story-collection Quote by Haruki Murakami

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

— Haruki Murakami

“I've never understood people who just go out for one drink. Once I have one drink, I want all the drinks.”

— Vicki Lesage

“When you have multiple personalities, you never drink alone.”

— Chris Eliopoulos

“I only drink a little, but when I do, I become a different person, and that person drinks a lot.”

— Nelson DeMille

“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

“Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something…

— Tim Cowlishaw

“Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and…

— Proverbs 31 67

“I began drinking because the thought that I was drinking gave me a kind of identity: each time I poured myself a brandy in…

— Penelope Mortimer

“Drinks were a lot like books, really: it didn’t matter where you were, the contents of a vodka tonic were always more or less…

— Lev Grossman

“I went out and had a drink. I needed to talk to someone, and solitary drinkers are lucky in this regard— they always have…

— Daniel Quinn

“Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Faced with an excess of beauty the mind can often only drink.”

— Jim Grimsley