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Related H.L. MENCKEN Note To Kids: I Never Drunk Alcohol,, Smoked or did Drugs and Im Still Cool.. KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG) LEILA SALES H. L. MENCKEN RICHARD M. NIXON CHARLES BAUDELAIRE I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story l... ELIF SAFAK CHRISTINE KEELER The majority of the persons arrested driving drunk have an alcohol problem. DAVID ROSENBLOOM FIONA APPLE I took on a year of reading books for a reason. Because words are witness to life: they record what ... NINA SANKOVITCH JESSAMYN WEST RAY BRADBURY SAMUEL BUTLER When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canad... DAVE FOLEY OPRAH WINFREY SIMON MASHALLA CHARLIE CHAPLIN I ... RAYMOND CHANDLER JOHN GREEN JOE GARAGIOLA PAUL AUSTER DOROTHY L. SAYERS GEORGE R.R. MARTIN JOE GARAGIOLA FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts c... NALO HOPKINSON CHARLES BUKOWSKI I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't... JUDY HOLLIDAY VLADIMIR NABOKOV JAY KRISTOFF DAMIEN HIRST CARLTON MELLICK III GAIL COLLINS STEPHEN KING NEIL GAIMAN Terry was conscious of all those things and wanted to tell the story as he had read it in the histor... COLIN FARRELL I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration b... MICHAEL FOREMAN The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a c... JOSE BERGAMIN The proper behaviour all through the holiday season is to be drunk. The drunkenness culminates on Ne... P.J. O'ROURKE When the history books are written in a thousand years, when space travel would have become routine,... HELEN SHARMAN Am I drunk?" he asked Crewcut.MO YAN People become more ignorant when it comes to religion. DANIEL MELGAçO As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories. TALULAH RILEY DOUGLAS ADAMS In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine... ALISON WEIR WILL SELF Their alcohol consumption levels haven't dropped much, but their drunk driving has. JAMES LANGE JOE E. LEWIS Wine should be drunk. And in order for wine to be drunk, it needs to be priced appropriately, fairly... CHRIS RANDALL JOE E. LEWIS DEAN MARTIN CHARLIE CHAPLIN It comes a point in which you don't know if you write books or the books write you ROBIN SACREDFIRE My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't ... ANNE FADIMAN LAINI TAYLOR O! green bottle come & take my frustrations away,so says the drunk. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) NENEH CHERRY CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Yeah, I got her,” Will confirms.KRISTEN PROBY Alcohol removes inhibitions - like that scared little mouse who got drunk and shook his whiskers and... ELEANOR EARLY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS W.B. YEATS JULIAN BARNES UNKNOWN WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY CHARLES BUKOWSKI Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for m... COLLEEN ATWOOD If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British M... ARTHUR EDDINGTON SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON TONY DUNGY The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on Ne... P. J. O'ROURKE NICK HARKAWAY SANTOSH KALWAR I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange. MARK E. SMITH DEAN MARTIN KURT VONNEGUT KARIN SLAUGHTER Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh... ALEXANDRA FULLER I love writing picture books and story books because of the exciting, visual life that artists and i... BERLIE DOHERTY MATT DE LA PENA He walked up a third time, you reach your limit. [I told him] 'If you've got something to say, say i... CECIL FLOWE He appeared drunk to the police officer at the scene. He was glassy-eyed and smelled of alcohol. BOB CLIFFORD WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY RACHEL COHN G.K. CHESTERTON ANTON CHEKHOV Buckling up is the best defense against a drunk driver, ERIC WALKER LAWRENCE WRIGHT Books are where words live. I read to discover if anybody’s home. TOM VAN DYKE C.S. LEWIS JOSEPH JOUBERT Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A fo... WILLA SIBERT CATHER EDDIE VAN HALEN TOM BROKAW JONATHAN SWIFT They've been right eight years out of eight. I don't know if I'd take a bet on things going over. Bu... FRANK LEPORE I was drunk, Anthony was drunk. No one will ever know what happened in that pool. MAKOSI MUSAMBASI GARY WOLF A man drank and became drunk, next he said, now i am delivered from my enemies and then walked into ... SOTONYE ANGA
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I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey. 
It wasn't an effect of alcohol. It was more like we got drunk on the night. 
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as ... 
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as ... 
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without s... 
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that wou... 
Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5. 
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. 
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. 
It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came f... 
It has become harder and harder to find books on a monthly basis that I feel absolutely compelled to... 
If you get drunk today ask yourself why you never got drunk yesterday, and if you got drunk yesterda... 
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. 
Mr Cobb was my escort. Such a nice escort, Mr Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I... 
If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos 
The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates. 
It was filled with books. That was the first thing I noticed when I went in—how many books there w... 
Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"
I am alive, and drunk on sunlight. 
The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates. 
If I did not believe in life, if I were to lose faith in the woman I love, if I were to lose faith i... 
Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious a... 
I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past. 
The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave... 
Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better. 
Maybe I’m drunk right now, even though I don’t remember drinking anything.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. 
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A drunk mans' words are a sober mans' thoughts. 
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted ... 
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. 
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. 
If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter 
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. 
I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk. 
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But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is. 
The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble ... 
Good-morrow to thy sable beak,
And glossy plumage, dark and sleek,
Thy crimson moon and azure ... 
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