Top Drinking Quotes
Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why should not their religion drive them to crucifixion...
William Faulkner
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Drinking Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drink
(n.) The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.
(n.) The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.
(n.) An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.
Hitch: making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,' as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would have savored that, as well.) Of course, watching the clock for the start-ti...
Christopher Hitchens
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They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.
Ellis Peters
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beer, confession, courage, drinking, quietness, reflection, solitude, taverns, thought, withdrawal