"Alcohol is the river we sit on the……" — Nick Flynn
"Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink."
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41 Quotes by Nick Flynn
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Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him…
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Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are…
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Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel…
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Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever…
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it…
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If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside…
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Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.
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If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and…
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On a good day I write, all day.
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That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.
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When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.
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Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of…
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More Alcohol Quotes
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
— Aristotle
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On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because…
— Michael Badnarik
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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious…
— Michael Badnarik
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Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to…
— Dave Barry
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According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision…
— Xavier Becerra
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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger,…
— Brendan Behan
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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
— Robert Benchley
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I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
— George Best
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
— Humphrey Bogart
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Never accept a drink from a urologist.
— Erma Bombeck
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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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