Quotes about drunk
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“They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decide Morir - Tapa Azul

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“I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.”

Guy Debord (1931–1994) French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding member of the Situationist International (SI)
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“Oh you’re heist-drunk Kitty Kat. And you have been since the Henley.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

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“Drunk with beauty, I tore down
Armfuls of blossoms.
How desolate the marred sky!”

Alison Croggon (1962) contemporary Australian poet, playwright and fantasy novelist

Source: The Naming

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“It always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.”

Wajma, p. 228
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

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“Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?"
Simon raised his eyebrow in response.
"Well, aside from mine of course," Jace said. "And I'm pretty sure my blood is fan-tastic.”

Variant: But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?"
Simon raised his eyebrows in response.
"Well, aside from mine, of course," Jace said. "And I'm sure my blood is fan-
Source: City of Glass

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“I'm apt to get drunk on words… Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Source: A Circle of Quiet

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“An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.”

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
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“Ivory's the kind of girl who gets drunk and immediately starts slurring. I have a lot of friends like that, and I think it's because it makes me look 'more together.”

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

Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

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“Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.”

Chapter 4 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_4
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)

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“Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.”

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist

Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 57.
Context: Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. … Knowing nothing and fearing everything, they rant and rave and riot like so many maniacs. The subject does not matter. Any idea which gives them an excuse of getting excited will serve. They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally avowable emotion. It may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman or even a doctor whose views displease the Medial Trust.

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“I ain’t drunk,” Wayne said, sniffling. “I’m investigatin’ alternative states of sobriety.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Shadows of Self

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“There is a dance of death in the West and actual death in the Middle East, courtesy of the Islamofascists. … The radical Muslims are on the warpath and they are against everyone else. They are against Muslims who are not as fanatical. They are against the members of all other religions. They think they are going to take us back to some pristine religious period in human history that never actually occurred. It's all complete rubbish. These "faith warriors" live lower than the pigs they despise. They kidnap and rape 8-year-old girls and say the Quran authorizes it. They're not purists. They're killers. They're Nazis in head scarfs. They aren't leading a religious revival. They're trying to take us back to a state of barbarism that has been extinct for 1,200 years. This is a barbaric revolution… Why would any government bring in unvetted Muslim immigrants at a time like this? It would seem that only an insane prince would do this to his country. But Obama is not insane. He's stoned. He's stoned on the orthodoxy of the progressive left. Obama and his supporters are drunk on their ideology. They think they're going to create a progressive utopia by continuing their attack on all Western values. This is precisely how great civilizations of the past declined and eventually fell. They rejected the values that made them great and degenerated into narcissism and selfishness. They kept on partying until they were too weak to defend themselves. Then, the unthinkable happened. They fell.”

Michael Savage (1942) U.S. radio talk show host, Commentator, and Author

A dance of death in the West http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/a-dance-of-death-in-the-west/, excerpt from Government Zero.
Government Zero: No Borders, No Language, No Culture (2015)

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“He will reprove the world of sin" —not because men swear and lie and steal and get drunk and murder— "of sin because they believe not on me.”

Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899) American evangelist and publisher

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 607.

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“I was also drunk, crazy and heavily armed at all times. People trembled and cursed when I came into a public room and started screaming in German.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

2000s, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004)

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“You wake up and you're still a little drunk and you can't believe that hot girl from last night actually has a beard and a penis.”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

Cosmopolitan, January 1999, on embarrassing dates.

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“Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.”

Source: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 510.

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“I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.”

Warren Zevon (1947–2003) American singer-songwriter

As quoted in "Warren Zevon: Singer-songwriter author of 'Werewolves of London'" by Spencer Leigh, The Independent (9 September 2003) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/warren-zevon-548722.html

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“I tried mescaline and cocaine in my youth, but I immediately switched to mint candy, which was more stimulating. I am not interested in drugs if they produce the same effects as alcohol. A drunkard is evidently ridiculous. I have been drunk some times, and I remember them as horrible experiences for me and everyone else.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

En mi juventud probé la mescalina y la cocaína pero enseguida me pasé a los pastillas de menta que me parecieron más estimulantes. Si las drogas producen el mismo efecto que el alcohol, no me interesan. Un borracho es evidentemente ridículo. He estado borracho algunas veces y lo recuerdo como una experiencia muy desagradable para los demás y para mí.
As quoted in Borges, El palabrista (1999) by Estebán Peicovich, p. 53

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“Well, whoever Keyser Söze is, I can tell you he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.”

Kevin Spacey (1959) American actor, director and producer

Oscar acceptance speech for his performance in The Usual Suspects (February 1996)

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“Oons, sir! do you say that I am drunk? I say, sir, that I am as sober as a judge.”

Henry Fielding (1707–1754) English novelist and dramatist

Don Quixote in England (1731), Act III, scene xiv

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“(on her DUI) I have a responsibility, and it's something that I did wrong, and if I could personally apologize to every single person that has lost a loved one from drunk driving I would. And unfortunately, I can't, but this is my way of paying my dues and taking responsibility and being an adult.”

Nicole Richie (1981) American television personality, musician, actress, and author

Source: Madden, Pregnancy Made Richie Change Her Ways http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3433390 Interview with Diane Sawyer, August 2, 2007 (March 6, 2008)

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