“Liquor does this? Even after you’re sober?”
“A cruel joke, isn’t it? The gods put a price tag on everything, it seems.”
Interlude “The Last Mistake” section 1 (p. 179)
The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)
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No. 10, st. 2.
Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)
“There was only one way to get through the rest of the evening and it wasn't sober.”
Source: Kiss and Make Up

“Sometimes it feels like you’re losing, but even when you’re losing, you’re getting something.”
Eliza Dushku on Wrong Turn, Tru Calling and Buffy Your Guide, Fred Topel
“Maybe it's maudlin, but so am I. I get chills every time I sing it, even when sober.”
Letter to Maxwell Perkins (21 October 1946); p. 80
To Reach Eternity (1989)
Context: Also by the way, I have found a title for this book. From Here to Eternity. Taken from the "Whiffenpoof" song, of Yale drinking fame. It goes: "We are little black sheep who have gone astray, baa... baa... baa. Gentlemen songsters out on a spree, damned from here to eternity. God have mercy on such as we. Baa, etc." Maybe it's maudlin, but so am I. I get chills every time I sing it, even when sober.

“Candy
Is Dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.”
Source: "Reflections on Ice-Breaking" in Hard Lines (1931); this statement is often misattributed to Dorothy Parker.