“When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.”

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Jimmy Breslin2

American journalist and author 1928–2017

Caroline Knapp (1959–2002) American writer

Source: Drinking: A Love Story

“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.

“It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

“You know you're a hot mess when the only person buying you drinks all night is yourself.”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

“I finally stopped drinking when I hit seventeen years old. Yes, imagine the fuckup I must have been. Stopped drinking because it isn't really good for your health.…and I fell into a bonfire! Yeah, you're done drinking then. You don't need AA. Falling into a bonfire is a one-step program.”

Christopher Titus (1964) actor, writer, podcaster

Norman Rockwell is Bleeding (2004)

“Lovers … when you raise yourselves and press
your mouths together—drink upon drink:
strange how each of you drinks your way past the other.”

Rainer Maria Rilke book Duino Elegies

Liebende … [w]enn ihr einer dem andern
euch an den Mund hebt und ansetzt –: Getränk an Getränk:
o wie entgeht dann der Trinkende seltsam der Handlung.
Second Elegy (as translated by Lee Siegel)
Duino Elegies (1922)