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The booze makes you a liar and the lies you tell yourself are the biggest. — J.D. Ruskin

I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me. — Craig Ferguson

Alcoholism, of course, is more than a habit. It's a physical addiction with psychological and perhaps genetic roots. — Charles Duhigg

Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life! — Malcolm Lowry

The records were in Danish, sadly, but a foreign language was no obstacle at five a.m. with a healthy buzz going. — Lars Emmerich

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day.
Whoever I had become had to die. — Craig Ferguson

I use to drink every day without a care until I released the Demons that now I must bare — Stanley Victor Paskavich

a town with more drinking joints than reading joints has a problem reading can solve — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall between
one's immediate desires and long-learned morality. — Jack London

Spurred by Amy's death I've tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself. — Russell Brand

Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously. — Carrie Fisher

I went to rehab for alcoholism in wine country, just to keep my options open. — Robin Williams

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly. — Conan O'Brien

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. — Steven Soderbergh

Alcohol does not solve problems but becomes a problem in itself — Amit Abraham

Count Olaf had taken out a bottle of wine to pour himself some breakfast, but when he saw the book he stopped, and sat down. — Lemony Snicket

I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore. — Robert Black

I felt pure the way you feel after you vomit, kind of light and strangely holy, like having taken a sauna in hell. — Michelle Tea

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe. — Billy Graham

Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial. — David Stafford

I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but also for a better way of living in my triumphs and gained wisdom. — Theia Mey

I had this great idea: I should get a job. Freelancing came with freedom, but maybe what I required was a cage. — Sarah Hepola

This is a good place," he said.
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed. — Ernest Hemingway,

Slurping these spirits is soul preparation, a warped communion, myself serving as god, priest, and congregation. — Mary Karr

It was your choice to sleep with her Gavin! It didn't just happen! — Belinda G. Buchanan

I soaked up the drink and it, in return, absorbed me. — Martin Pond

I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me. — Barry Hannah

Freedom doesn't come through banning; freedom lies in mastering self-control. — Beem Weeks

Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity. — Dave Matthes

When you quit drinking you stop waiting. — Caroline Knapp

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof. — Ariana Franklin

One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn't a clue. A day is a fuckin' eternity — Roddy Doyle

There was a sink for washing glasses and an assortment of cartoon napkins illustrating the lighter side of alcoholism. — David Sedaris

A person who is alcoholic usually has the feeling of inferiority that results in a person feeling extremely depressed. — Paul Silway

Alcoholism is a Curse — Honeya

Looking For Love and Looking In All The Wrong Places — Gordon Rouston

That woman." My cousin placed his hands on his hips. "She is a harbinger of ulcers and alcoholism — L. H. Cosway

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. — Samuel Butler

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease. — Malachy McCourt

Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair. — Jeffrey Eugenides

One doesn't even think of
the liver
and if the liver
doesn't think of
us, that's
fine. — Charles Bukowski

God cannot be happy when we ignore such issues as crime, corruption, alcoholism and child neglect — Sunday Adelaja

If there's one thing I learned in Alanon, it's that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it. — Vicki Covington

Explain to me, if you will, why alcoholism is a disease but can only be treated by attending little spiritual meetings in basements. — Vicki Covington

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them. — Robin Williams

Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other. — Tennessee Williams

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church. — Dave Matthes

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius. — Truman Capote

Becoming a writer is a polite way of saying you've chosen alcoholism as a career. — Joe Ducie

Getting sober is a radically creative act. — Meredith Bell

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep. — George Best

There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease. — Malachy McCourt

The day I became free of alcohol was the day that I fully understood and embraced the truth that I would not be giving anything up by not drinking — Liz Hemingway

Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill. — Irene Tomkinson

People who don't live at least a little bit in fear, have nothing left to live for. — Dave Matthes

She was trying to hide it, the pain I had caused her again. Because she knew how much those tears destroyed me. — Ashleigh Z.

Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze? — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Definition of my alcoholism One was too many and twenty was not enough. — Johnny Mack

I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure. — Sarah Hepola

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing — Tennessee Williams

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds. — Anton Chekhov

If you drink anymore, you're going to be positively flammable. — Michaela Haze

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. — Liza Minnelli

Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals. — Diana Trilling

And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic. — Augusten Burroughs

I had sent her to four consecutive psychiatrists, and not one of them had gotten me sober. — Alcoholics Anonymous

Anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me. — Caitlin Thomas

There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk
in fact, quite the contrary. — Heather King

Alcohol is the fuel to your pains. Share you pains and you will see how easy it is to quit alcohol. — Srinivas Shenoy

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde is a metaphor for alcoholism. He drinks a potion, becomes a monster. I know exactly how he feels. — Craig Ferguson

I was a degenerate, with an insatiable capacity for perversion. Incapable of change. I could do anything except not drink. — Dan Fante

And you know what the worst thing was?
The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried. — Jack McCarthy

Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another. — Kay Boyle

His laugh is made of porch swings and lemonade. — Augusten Burroughs

Gin and whisky cost so much more. Oblivion and courage could no longer be purchased for the price of an old song. — Norah Hoult

How is that for some people drinking is a short-term loan on the spirit, but for others a heavy mortgage on the soul? — Sebastian Barry

I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running. — Dave Matthes

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. — Simone Weil

It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace. — Tennessee Williams

Everything I had I gave to alcohol. — Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image. — Terence McKenna

Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism. — Chris Wooding

Despite evidence to the contrary, I hated drinking to the point that I misplaced really big slabs of time. — Augusten Burroughs

Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having. — Mitch Hedberg

My family traditions are alcoholism and dysfunction," Jennifer said. "Oh, and anything you can make from government cheese. — Libba Bray

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind. — Caroline Knapp

Is a few hours of hell-raising, or respite from life's toil worth this every morning? — Catherine Lockwood

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it. — Mercedes McCambridge

When you are young your body cannot handle alcohol, and when you get old your mind cannot handle it. Either way, alcohol has its way. — Robert Black

I believe in 'Positives' not Negatives the only thing about Alcohol I'm Powerless over is those Damn Taxes — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Ethan didn't mind his blood being taken - he just disliked the fact that it had to be sucked through a needle in order to do it. — Belinda G. Buchanan

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism. — Christopher Atkins

The horrible thing about being sober is you lose your excuse for being so fucked up. — Augusten Burroughs

Young people who begin drinking before age fifteen are four times more likely to develop alcoholism than those who begin drinking at twenty-one. — Joe Bruzzese

The head can travel a far piece while the body sits in one spot. It can traverse many decades, and many conversations can be had, even with the dead. — Mary Karr

Liver failure is the easiest way to say 'no' to alcohol. — Bauvard

I had to feel sorry for Bubba's wife. In AA we called it denial. We take the asp to our breast and smile at the alarm we see in the eyes of others. — James Lee Burke

Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else. — Tim Cowlishaw