“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Variant: First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
“Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.”
— H. Beam Piper, book Little Fuzzy
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