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“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says...” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“As the wine went down in the bottles, patriotism arose in the three men.” John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat
“Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.” Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.” James Joyce, Dubliners
“Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.” Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
“Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“And I went to rehab in wine country just to keep my options open.” Robin Williams, Weapons of Self Destruction
“They’re a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It’s said that without whisky to soak and soften the world, they’d kill themselves.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.” Charles Bukowski, Factotum
“It's true that a drinker numbs his senses, it's true that he briefly escapes and rests, but he'll return from the delusion, finds everything to be unchanged, has not become wiser, has gathered no enlightenment,—has not risen several steps.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“when you're sober you don't want to see anybody, and when you're tight nobody wants to see you.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.” G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
“And some people say, "Robin, I'm a functioning alcoholic." You can be one. It's like being a paraplegic lap dancer. You can do it, just not as well as the others really.” Robin Williams, Weapons of Self Destruction
“All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments .” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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