"How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want……" — Jonathan Ames
"How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors."
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41 Quotes by Jonathan Ames
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I was aware that I was acting atrociously but I couldn't stop myself. Rarely had I behaved in such a…
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I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.
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I wondered where the person was who had taken my place, who wanted to know what news people had been…
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I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.
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To write about a place, you have to live there.
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I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.
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A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and…
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As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.
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For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.
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Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because…
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I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.
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Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.
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— Glenn Beck
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[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.
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Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing…
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Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you…
— Mitch Hedberg
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My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could…
— Betty Ford
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I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
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No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single…
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The reason I'm not an alcoholic is I don't like to drink in front of the kids . . .…
— Phyllis Diller
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author…
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