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I'd sooner smarm like a fart-licking spaniel than starve in a world of fat bones.

Evelyn Waugh (on kissing the ass of the wealthy in order to get sponsored)

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I would rather be ashes than dust ! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

-Jack London, reknowned drinker

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“When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have the second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there’s no holding me.”
[William Faulkner]

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Oh, I goofed. It wasn't Evelyn Waugh, it was Oscar Wilde who said he'd "sooner smarm like a fart-licking spaniel". See, I was drunk when I submitted it the first time. That's my story and I'm stickin to it....

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Yeah, Faulkner, a genius....and a genius who drank....

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They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.

Scottish saying.

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I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
George Best

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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Charles Bukowski

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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing.

Jack Kerouac, On the Road
US novelist (1922 - 1969)

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“Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.”
- Kaiser Welhelm

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"They ACT like they love Ol Dirty - ladies don't love Ol Dirty Bastard because ... Ol Dirty Bastard is busy lovin' them. They might like Ol Dirty Bastard, know what I'm sayin? They might listen to his music or something, but really they don't pay no mind. They pay nothing no mind, nothing is paid a mind to, really, on this earth. It's just living, and dying. The world is a big ball of fire and it's just burning with no feeling."- Ol Dirty Bastard
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"I'm sure there is an irony in there somewhere but I am not drunk enough to figure it out." Edward Albee

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"He who has no vices has no virtues."
~Abraham Lincoln

"My moral standing is lying down."
~Trent Reznor

"Play the piano drunk like a percussion instrument, until the fingers begin to bleed a bit."
~title of a book of poems by Charles Bukowski
IN VINO VERITAS

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I may be drunk madame, but in the morning I will be undrunk, and yuo will still be ugkly.

-Winston Churchuilll
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- Hoss

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"I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots"

-Yeats
Like a desperate thirst in a raging drought

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