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Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears
— Louis MacNeice, Poetry of the Thirties
I'm the perfect girl. You read about me in Maxim or whatever. I tell dirty jokes like I'm one of the guys, and I'm sitting there in my panties and bra so you can see I'm a piece of ass in the bargain. Except I'm real, so I come with all kinds of complications.
— Garth Ennis, The Boys, Volume 9: The Big Ride
And sometimes,even if everything seems unreala strange force will appeardragging you back the 'so called' real.
— A.T. Danielle
I am one sick fuck... I can say that for real in real.
— Deyth Banger
When you are on the spiritual path, and you are looking for the answers outside, there is an ample of reasons, for you to deviate from the path. The path of the ultimate truth is straight way inside
— Roshan Sharma
The Sieves of time, filter out the fakes from the real.Don't look back for them, they were filtered out for your refinement.
— Wordions
I hate him, too," she shivered. "I hate his damned suffering.
— Earnest Hemingway
I am repeating... It's not a drill,... It's real....
— Deyth Banger
Nothing unusual was noted during the voyage, in fact everything ran smoothly until Security alerted Biscay about the stiff in cabin 407. Nobody heard or saw anything suspicious. None of the passengers were missing or acting suspiciously. No airlock doors were opened or any transports allowed since their last stop four days prior. There were no notorious names on the passenger list, nor any unsavory persons among the ranks of his crew. In fact, the ship’s commander had never even seen a dead body in real – um, life before. And yet, almost magically, there it was.
— Christina Engela, Dead Man's Hammer
When something serious happens in your life, something bad comes out of it but also something good. You get to see who is real. Who your true friends are, and who truly loves you. ﻿
— Angie karan
Killers are clever, victims are the people which are scare from the negativity. That's how it goes and it will go.
— Deyth Banger
To see me real native language is like to search in empty bucket, I use my native language few times and English more often. But who is my native language and have I used it already?? (is the best question!)
— Deyth Banger
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There is this book, Destroy All the Cars. It's about how caring about something deeply can also make you hate the world, because the world can be really disappointing. But don't worry-- it's also funny, too. Because that's how you get through all the disappointment, right? You have to find it all funny.
— David Levithan, Another Day
I read it a lot, whenever I find it in a library. Partly because I find new things every time I read it, but also because these BOOKS are always there for me. All of them are there for me. My life changes all the time, but books don’t change. My reading of them changes—I can bring new things to them each time. But the words are familiar words. The world is a place you’ve been before, and it welcomes you back.
— David Levithan, Another Day
You can beat a man to death with a crystal /Or build him shelter with the butt of a pistol
— Haylar Garcia
We gotta be willing to let it hurt. You know, all this notion that acting is “yeah it’s pretend” and yes we enjoy it and yeah we can have a good time with it. But if you wanna LAND, you wanna make an impact, you want those FUCKERS TO REMEMBER YOU! Then you have to let it hurt sometimes. You gotta get there because that’s all an audience ever wants. Is for you to open up your chest and show them that you have a fucking heart. That’s all we want. A heart. A human being. Not an affectation.
— Kevin Spacey
And I have seen people on Facebook with their real names and own pictures but fake personalities
— Jasmine Kiyani
And I have seen people on Facebook with their real names and own pictures but fake personalities.
— Jasmine Kiyani
So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation.
— Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
You don't give up on people you truly love. Whether they are in your life or stand on the edge of your heart, you want them to be happy. This is the truest kind of love because it gives more than it ever receives.
— Shannon L. Alder
You wonder why he loves her, she's so unlike any other, but any man can love an ordinary woman. They’re everywhere and whereas he’s had other women love him before, they were women who loved a lot, and such love is fickle, never setting anyone apart.Attaining the love of someone known not to love is an honor and the highest level of love there is, because it’s rare, and real.
— Donna Lynn Hope
You never wanted me to be real. You never wanted anyone to be. But you didn’t want me to show it. You wanted an act to help your act...
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
You could say that life just happens and it's the way it goes, you either accept it or you fight it... Or You can be one of the few that rises above this perception and fights in all their glory to create the life they want, regardless of the struggle. Who do you want to be? Someone to remember or someone easy to forget...
— Nikki Rowe
The look on his face made me want to die. It confirmed every mean and low thing I'd ever thought about myself, the stuff you hope and pray no one will ever know about you. Because if they knew, they would see the real you, and they would despise you.
— Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You
Are these real diamonds?" I once asked, and she said, "Why have them if they're not?
— Elizabeth Berg
In real life, it is very important to be able to see a tiny difference between need for speed or just want to overtake.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Rough love. Hard, edgy love. Love that made you bleed. Love hard to find, the kind of love you fought to keep.
— Jae T. Jaggart, Cash: Angel, Demon, Rock Star
Genuine faith will produce genuine changes in your life.
— Jim George
He's basically a good man. But he doesn't know me. Any more than he knew that girl that looked after your mother. He can't know me, not the way I know him. Maybe some of these Hawaiians can, or the Indians on the reservation. They've seen their fathers humiliated. Their mothers desecrated. But your grandfather will never know what that feels like.
— Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
A nurse and a social worker took fifteen minutes out of their shitty thankless job in the roughest corner of town, sat on a couple of milk crates drinking coffee, flopped their real selves out of the cement and both liked what they saw.
— Laura Buzo, Holier Than Thou
Why anyone’s argument for god(s) is fallacious, especially as a causal agent:Imagine Michael and Jessica are at Jimmy’s house sitting at the kitchen table. Jessica steps outside to take a phone call. When she returns her drink is spilled. Jessica asks, “How did my drink get knocked over?” Michael replies, “It was a SnickerDoodle.”J: “What’s a SnickerDoodle?”M: “It looks a little like an elephant but it is small, pink, and invisible.”J: “Is it invisible or pink? It can’t be both.”M: “Well, it is. You can’t understand what the SnickerDoodle looks like.”J: “Zip it. SnickerDoodle’s are not real. How did my drink get knocked over?”M: “Well, it was Jimmy’s cat, but it was because he was chasing the SnickerDoodle, so the SnickerDoodle made him do it.”J: “Stop with the SnickerDoodle, you weirdo.”M: “Just kidding, it was Jimmy’s cat, I don’t know why.”We have no reason to believe that SnickerDoodle’s are real. Without SnickerDoodles being established as possible causes to drinks being knocked down, then there is no point to discussing them as the cause of Jessica’s drink being knocked over. In similar fashion, we have to establish that cats are a possible reason that drinks get knocked down. Okay, we have established that cats are real and capable of doing so. It is now a viable option, but in order for Michael’s story have any plausibility, we not only have to establish that a cat did it, we have to establish that it was Jimmy’s cat, or that Jimmy even has a cat.Believers cannot get to step one, establishing that any god is even a viable option on the list of possibilities. Then even if gods were proven to be real, you still have to prove that it was your particular god, or that your particular god exists. To argue that your god is real, is like Michael arguing that Jimmy’s SnickerDoodle knocked over Jessica’s drink. Can grown-adults take that argument seriously? Really?
— Michael A. Wood Jr., Eliot
What were you supposed to say to people you barely knew? That was the kind of thing I needed lessons in - forget algebra and history.
— Jennifer R.  Hubbard
Today’s temple of truth will become the prison of tomorrow.
— William Meader
And you don't have to pinch me to see if I'm real, either. How about you just place your hand in mine while we walk to the store, then you can see just how real I am, firsthand.
— Steven L. Sheppard, Assia
Just think about it.Procreation. You give to thenext one down the line.That's really all we've got.Society, government,money, religion,careers, nuclear families,monogamy.These are all just highly creativesocially accepted delusionsthat we impose on reality to try and gainsome semblance of control over our lives.It gives us the illusion of choice.It makes us feel a littleless like animals.Animals. What do you mean?Like evolution?Yeah, evolution, exactly.I do not believein evolution.There's 400 billion starsin the Milky Way alone,making the amount of starsin the entire universecompletely mind-boggling.We are nothing.If an asteroid hadn't hit Earthand wiped out all the dinosaurs,we wouldn't be here.
— Samantha Borgens Stuck In Love
I trace his face with my fingers, 'Let me see. A guy tells me that he would have thrown himself in front of a train if it wasn't for me and then drives seven hours straight, without whingeing once, on a wild-goose chase in search of my mother with absolutely no clue where to start. He is, in all probability, going to get court-martialled because of me, has put up with my moodiness all day long, and knows exactly what to order me for breakfast. It doesn't get any more romantic than that, Jonah.
— Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road
The life of a star is surrounded by the qualities of a Galaxy
— I am that Galaxy.
Hope itself is always genuine. It's only what it's placed in that can prove to be false.
— Karen Maitland, Company of Liars
The heart is a hollow muscle,and it will beat billions of time during our life. About the size of a fist,it has four chambers....How this muscle can house something as emcompassing as love is beyond me.
— Katy Evans
Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else's.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
I think I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.
— Jenny Han
You worry me, Mags, so self-contained and quiet. Hazelton would not have been my choice for you.""Why not?""He's a man who dwells in the shadows and appears to like it there. You have enough shadows of your own.""Maybe he sees me as I really am because shadows don't deter him.
— Grace Burrowes, Lady Maggie's Secret Scandal
Even if the climate change is not real, its funds are real.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Well, I don’t want to be king, I want to be real.
— John Lennon
Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?
— Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
Be careful walking down the primrose path. You may find hell instead of happily ever after.
— Gossip Girl
When you succeed, everyone wants to be part of it; but when you fail everyone seems outsider.
— M.F. Moonzajer
If we choose to behave differently, we are considered 'Mad' or 'immature
— Anamika Mishra
Sometimes you have to make sacrifices and devote yourself for a fake love to prove it the most real one.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
Practice what you preach. Don't be a staggering image of the same shame you place upon others. Live, love, be free. Most of all be real.
— LaNina King
I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he is now.
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem
Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.
— Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland
Real love is the shared loneliness".
— Alexandar Tomov
Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.
— J.G. Ballard
Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open
— Jay Woodman
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.
— Laurence Olivier
Always be YOU – Those who appreciate the real YOU will be blessed and those who do not, do not deserve to know YOU.
— Mary Banos, Uplifting One Life at a Time
You aren't happy," Estela says."I can't be happy," I say."Look at me, Kenzie.""I'm looking at you, Estela.""Do you know your own heart?""I don't know anything.""Go," she says, "and think. And don't come back until you know.
— Beth Kephart, Small Damages
Passion can’t be planned
—  only felt.
Ammu's tears made everything that had so far seemed unreal, real.
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Never will I understand the mentallity of a man, who can plant his own seed and not watch it grow.
— Shawn Mitchell
With Me, I want the Bank of America to know that I'm fucking alive.
— Jason Myers, The Mission
Don't be about just any life. Be about the life you want to be about.
— Elias Williams
(…) Real time is not a unitary strand distributing homogeneous units of past, present and future in a fixed empirical order, but is rather a complex, interactive, « thick » manifold of distinct yet integrated durations. p22
— Sanford Kwinter, Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture
It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.
— Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.
— Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Well, I'm stubborn and wrong, but at least I know it.
— Vanessa Carlton
Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star
The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.
— Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Are you that afraid of being wrong? One would assume you’d be accustomed to it by now.”He grunted. “Be careful, girl. You wouldn’t want to accidentally insult a man.”“The last thing I’d want to do is accidentally insult you, Vathah,” Shallan said. “To think that Icouldn’t manage it on purpose if I wanted!
— Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?
— Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction
Had not enough gone wrong?
— Brom, The Child Thief
It's a sad thing to see, because as far as I know, this man Gavo had done nothing to deserve being shot in the back of the head at his own funeral. Twice.
— Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife
I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.
— Gloria Whelan, Angel on the Square
Lesson number one, she muttered, love is beyond your grasp. Lesson two: nowhere is it written that you're guaranteed fairness. And three: there's only right and wrong.
— Sandy Blair, A Man In A Kilt
I can't help it. I'm just a big gasbag. I still got leftover barbeque gas." She squeezed her eyes shut tight and did a full minute-long far. "Excuse me," she said.
— Janet Evanovich
I was wrong about everything, please excuse me!
— Deyth Banger
Cora blamed the people who wrote it down. People always got things wrong, on purpose as much as by accident.
— Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
No one has the right to do wrong, even if wrong has been done to them.
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
But the most important thing to know about being an introvert is that there’s nothing wrong with you. You’re not broken because you’re quiet. It’s okay to stay home on a Friday night instead of going to a party. Being an introvert is a perfectly normal 'thing' to be.
— Jenn Granneman, The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World
Rather than condemning people for their wrong deeds, love and pray for them because everyone has their shortcomings
— Topsy Gift
This is how you love: you do it in all the wrong ways, because that is the only way we know how.
— R. Y.S. Perez, I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection
When I look inside myself, I find I am to blame,For everything that I've done wrong,And said others were to blame.
— Anthony T. Hincks
If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel my abilities into the wrong places.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
No matter what, you will be always wrong.
— Homin Hieger
Sometimes goes easier... others... goes wrong. But that's world!(Dexter)
— Deyth Banger
To understand the principle of love is to eradicate wrong acts
— Sunday Adelaja
There is nothing wrong with the harvest
— Sunday Adelaja
To find solace in the wrong area as it seems to be at first is to seek God for direction
— Sunday Adelaja
How many innocent victims of hate crime does it take before it becomes wrong?For us, one is already too many. For them, a thousand is not enough.
— Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency
Prove I am wrong, I will leave this earth.
— Tanmaya Guru
Cautiously, he moved further out, checking the roofs, doors, windows. Nothing. He walked out further, keeping against the wooden wall of a building, just in case. His heart was pounding in his ears. Strange, isn’t it? You could be in hundreds of fights, but everyone always seemed like the first time. A million different things could happen, go completely wrong. Then it might well be his last. Where is he? Which building?
— Christina Engela, Black Sunrise
Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.
— Muhammad Ali
Wrong Turn 1 and 2 are pretty interesting films, but they need little more work on special effects!
— Deyth Banger
No and no you are wrong... the problem is that they don't see who are the targets so they kill all.(28 Weeks Later)
— Deyth Banger
Okay... there isn't problem...! - I will accept what u say I will agree with u say, because I don't want trouble but remember you going in direction wrong.
— Deyth Banger
There’s no standard career path to becoming a deconstructor of wrongness,
— David H. Freedman, Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us and How to Know When Not to Trust Them
When the President does it , that means that it is not illegal.
— Richard M. Nixon
No one is promised a tomorrow. She had been wrong about every man she loved or said she loved. She’d been wrong about everything. She’d entered into her life in the middle of its story. She had confused herself with the actress who portrayed her.
— Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau
Lady, you have the wrong number. Our cat isn't even in the hospital. He doesn't want pajamas.
— Jenny  Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
We've got to stand with our North Korean allies.
— Sarah Palin
If we don’t confront those things that are wrong, it gets worse.
— Sunday Adelaja
Anyone can do the wrong thing if they really want to.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
Wrong things never lead to success. If a man acts wrongly and succeeds, that is not the way. Without the Lethani there is no true success.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
The wrong answer is the right answer to a different question.
— Paul Sloane, How to be a Brilliant Thinker: Exercise Your Mind and Find Creative Solutions
maybe i am doing right , maybe i am doing wrong but at least i'm trying
— Jameel
This was all horribly wrong. This was red wine with fish. This was a man wearing a dinner jacket and brown shoes. This was as wrong as things get.
— Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller
A person who always finds something wrong is most likely thinking wrong.
— Debasish Mridha
What the fuck is wrong with you? I screamed in my head – or maybe to my head.
— Moxie Mezcal, Concrete Underground
That's a very admirable quality in a wife. The ability to admit she is in the wrong.
— Lindsay Armstrong, Leave Love Alone
I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
— Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858
Your true conviction is tested not when everything goes your way but rather when things go wrong...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Would they retreat or move forward? Could they do this thing they were on the verge of doing? Did they have it in them to make a wrong decision just because it felt right?
— Emily Giffin, Heart of the Matter
I don’t know,” he said. “I just feel like I have to do something.”“Do what?”“I don’t know. That’s what’s wrong. Or part of what’s wrong. I feel like I’m sleepwalking.
— Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
Our actions has ensured that we made headlines for all the wrong reasons
— Oche Otorkpa
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.
— Philip Roth, American Pastoral
Just because you have power, doesn't mean you should use it, especially for the wrong reasons.
— Celia McMahon, Skye
[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.
— Mary Pickford
That person who declares that there is always something wrong is always doing something to make things wrong.
— Christian D. Larson
I hereby arm myself for today with coffee and the willingness to be wrong.
— Audrey Assad
When you fall in love, you don’t listen to anyone, because everything seems wrong.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
He's wrong he's so he's so wrong he's more wrong than an upside-down rainbow.
— Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
He had a suspicion of plausible answers
—  they were so often wrong.
How can you say that so casually? You're talking about the possible death of hundreds of people, yourself included."He gave a negligent shrug. "Wrong place, wrong time. Life sucks.
— Shannon K. Butcher, Dark and Stormy Knights
You hate birthdays yet pee your pants over presents. There is clearly something wrong with you," Garrett joked.
— Tara Sivec, A Beautiful Lie
If you want to understand what is wrong with stupid people you must be one of them.
— M.F. Moonzajer
it can't be wrong, if it feels so wrong
— Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single
Life is like defusing a bomb, once you cut the wrong wire your whole life is ruined.
— Mohamed Zahy Hussain
And to all the doctors and people who said there was no hope for children with progeria and they don’t live long I want to say, ‘You’re wrong.
— Kerry Okines, Old Before My Time: Hayley Okines' Life with Progeria
When you see something wrong and fail to do anything about it, even in the smallest effort, you accept the wrong.
— D'Andre Lampkin
Follow your heart even if she is wrong, because only few dares to do that.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I am sitting here at thirty-six feeling like I am responsible for the holocaust for all that is toxic and wrong. Maybe it’s because I eat meat, and I stepped on three ants last Tuesday.
— Amber Garibay
… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.
— Terry Pratchett, Snuff
I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all.
— Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body?
There was something else I couldn't quite define--something that made me uneasy. We were a wrong fit, like unmatching puzzle pieces.
— Heather Anastasiu, Glitch
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
— Ernest Hemingway
I drink to make other people more interesting.
— Ernest Hemingway
Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.
— Charles Bukowski
Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.
— Winston S. Churchill
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]
— Benjamin Franklin
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
— Ernest Hemingway
I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
— Anne Lamott
I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him, I’m drinking so that you’re more fun to be around.
— Chelsea Handler, Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
— Oscar Wilde
If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.
— Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six
I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.
— Charles Bukowski, Women
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
— Bette Davis
I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
— George Bernard Shaw
Jem grinned. “Where have you been? The Blue Dragon? The Mermaid?”	“The Devil Tavern if you must know.” Will sighed and leaned against one of the posts of the bed. “I had such plans for the evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was not to be. No sooner had I consumed my third drink in the Devil than I was accosted by a delightful small flower-selling child who asked me for two-pence for a daisy. The price seemed steep, so I refused. When I told the girl as much, she proceeded to rob me.”	“A little girl robbed you?” Tessa said.	“Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel.”	“Easy mistake to make,” Jem said.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
— Raymond Chandler
They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am.
— Stephen Colbert
Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.
— Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
— Tom Waits
Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
— Ogden Nash, Hard Lines
Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as many outlaws as has the central nervous system and dissatisfied wives. Tequila, scorpion honey, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Aztec, crema de cacti; tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution; tequila, liquid geometry of passion; Tequila, the buzzard god who copulates in midair with the ascending souls of dying virgins; tequila, firebug in the house of good taste; O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate!
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
Fell in love with a beautiful blonde once. Drove me to drink. And I never had the decency to thank her.
— W.C. Fields
So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
— Winston S. Churchill
Ronan did not smoke
—  he preferred his habits with hangovers.
It was my Uncle George who discovered alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
— P.G. Wodehouse
his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine
— E.E. Cummings
A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.
— Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.
— Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades
Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.
— Ray Bradbury, The October Country
I mean, you know how it is. You chase a bottle of sleeping pills with a bottle of Jack Daniel's and life's never the same, no matter how many times you try to tell people it was just an accident.
— Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be
I like bars just after they open for the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny and the barkeep is giving himself that last look in the mirror to see if his tie is straight and his hair is smooth. I like the neat bottles on the bar back and the lovely shining glasses and the anticipation. I like to watch the man mix the first one of the evening and put it down on a crisp mat and put the little folded napkin beside it. I like to taste it slowly. The first quiet drink of the evening in a quiet bar—that's wonderful.
— Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.
— Mitch Ratcliffe
I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
— Robert E. Lee
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
— Jimmy Breslin
Ever heard the phrase, 'candy is dandy but liquor is quicker?'"Great she wanted to get me drunk."Ah...ever heard of underage!""Where there's a will there's a way," she said, matter-of-factly."That's your great plan?
— Jessica Shirvington, Embrace
You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love... but I tell you this, something is coming, and we'd be fools to ignore it.""When have I ever claimed not to be a fool?
— Cassandra Clare, The Rise of the Hotel Dumort
At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!
— Martha Graham, Blood Memory
The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.
— Lewis Grizzard
Janx Spirit : Janx Spirit is a rather potent alcoholic beverage, and is used heavily in drinking games that are played in the hyperspace ports that serve the madranite mining belts in the star system of Orion Beta. The game is not unlike the Earth game called Indian Wrestling, and is played like this: Two contestants sit at either side of a table, with a glass in front of each of them. Between them would be placed a bottle of Janx Spirit — as immortalized in that ancient Orion mining song :“Oh don’t give me no more of that Old Janx SpiritNo, don’t you give me no more of that Old Janx SpiritFor my head will fly, my tongue will lie, my eyes will fry and I may dieWon’t you pour me one more of that sinful Old Janx Spirit”Each of the two contestants would then concentrate their will on the bottle and attempt to tip it and pour spirit into the glass of his opponent – who would then have to drink it. The bottle would then be refilled. The game would be played again. And again. Once you started to lose you would probably keep losing, because one of the effects of Janx spirit is to depress telepsychic power. As soon as a predetermined quantity had been consumed, the final loser would have to perform a forfeit, which was usually obscenely biological.
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.
— Tom Hodgkinson
I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil change. I'd failed to file my damned income tax. One of the stems had broken off of my reading glasses. There were ants in my apartment. I needed to get my teeth cleaned. My shoes were run down at the heels. I had insomnia. My auto insurance had expired. I cut myself every time i shaved. I hadn't laughed in 6 years. I tended to worry when there was nothing to worry about. And when there was something to worry about, i got drunk.
— Charles Bukowski, Pulp
I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day.
— Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies
And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.
— Augusten Burroughs, Dry
Don't drink too much.""When I can spell out your name in shot glasses, I'll stop.""I'll have to get a shorter name.""I'll have to forget how to spell it.
— Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead
They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
— Fred McMane
Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter,Sermons and soda water the day after.Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;The best of life is but intoxication:Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunkThe hopes of all men, and of every nation;Without their sap, how branchless were the trunkOf life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion:But to return--Get very drunk; and whenYou wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.
— George Gordon Byron, Don Juan
Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.
— Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
— William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.
— Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
Glasses are for people that sips instead of drinks.
— Kai Starr, Three Ways from Sunday: A Desperado Novel
I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
— Winston S. Churchill
Here, drink your liqueur," Henry said, tossing back her drink. "I carry it with me everywhere because it's the only kind of drink that Leo doesn't like, so there's a chance I'll still have some tomorrow.
— Eloisa James, A Kiss at Midnight
Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.
— Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
You don’t need to drink to get over your feelings. Deal with your feelings that’s how you get over them,
— Holly Hood, Prison of Paradise
the only drinking problem I've ever had, is figuring out why I'm still stuck in this salad spinner
— Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single
Taking a couple short backup swigs, Flint’s crippling headache started to release its grip, sort of the way he imagined an octopus would release an inedible bowling ball.
— Cole Alpaugh, The Bear in a Muddy Tutu
Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki'i fashion.""Which is what?" Teft asked. "With spears?"Rock laughed. "No, no. We upon the Peaks are not barbarians like you down here.""How then?" Kaladin asked, genuinely curious."Well," Rock said, "is involving much mudbeer and singing."“How's that a duel?”"He who can still sing after the most drinks is winner. Plus, soon' everyone is so drunk that they forget what argument was about."Teft laughed. "Beats knives at dawn, I suppose.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Well, I drank enough to sustain a small Spanish village, I haven't had an orgasm in a thousand years, and I will probably die old and alone in a beautifully designed apartment with all of Clive's illegitimate children swarming around me...How do you think I feel?
— Alice Clayton, Wallbanger
I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.
— Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
— John Milton, Comus
Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.
— Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
Now is the time to drink!
— Horace
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
— Nancy Astor
Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way he wishes all moments in life could feel: heightened with the sense that anything could happen at any moment--that being alive is important, because just when you least expect it, you might receive exactly what you least expect.
— Douglas Coupland, Player One: What Is to Become of Us
I would rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy
— Dean Martin
In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.
— Florence King, Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
More wine for me, pour me some more!" 	"You smart girl, I knew you're a smart girl, just teasing...” 	Faces turn red, the dark earth blood is rising. 	They wink at Pelka, wink at the host: "He knows his goods!" The women feel the buttons constricting them - they undo one, another, a third. By twos the guests go outside to get some air.	"Well, my dear guests, are you soaked to the gills? Eh? And now-to dance! Get lively!"	The table and the chairs vanish. The middle of the room is empty. Ivan the Monk jumps out of his hole, a tambourine in his hands: "Tim-ta-a-am! Tim-ta-a-am!"	“Eh-hey!" the redhead suddenly snatches the tambourine and sweeps off, tapping wildly in a circle. Eyes closed: a white sleepless sun-a white night on the meadow-white columns of smoke swaying over fires...	"Eh-ah!"-to whirl herself to death, to whirl out everything, to empty herself - nothing has ever been...	Heavy boots are thumping on the floor, beards fly in the wind, the frock-coat tails go flying... hey, get going, faster, faster - a hundred versts an hour! ("The North")
— Yevgeny Zamyatin, The Dragon: Fifteen Stories
Elliot Rawley was a drinker, Cy’s mother had been right. And he was a poor drinker. One that let the demons of the bottle into his head when he tipped it back, demons that went about unloosing all the trouble they could find stashed in the catacombs of his mind. Every tragic thing that had ever happened, every self-doubt, every delusion, freed itself from bondage and revisited him when he drank.
— Sarah Hall, The Electric Michelangelo
For he was drinking too much. Not uncontrollably nor offensively, but still he seldom seemed to have a glass out of his hand.
— Rosamunde Pilcher, Wild Mountain Thyme
Do you prefer fermented or distilled?This is a trick question. It doesn’t matter how much you like wine, because wine is social and writing is anti-social. This is a writer’s interview, writing is a lonely job, and spirits are the lubricant of the lonely. You might say all drinking is supposed to be social but there’s a difference, at one in the morning while you’re hunched over your computer, between opening up a bottle of Chardonnay and pouring two-fingers of bourbon into a tumbler. A gin martini, of course, splits the difference nicely, keeping you from feeling like a deadline reporter with a smoldering cigarette while still reminding you that your job is to be interesting for a living. Anyone who suggests you can make a martini with vodka, by the way, is probably in need of electroconvulsive therapy.
— Stuart Connelly
I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed.
— Stephen King, The Dead Zone
Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.
— Sarah Hall, The Electric Michelangelo
Mulled ale for the frozen man,And mulled ale for the weary:For mulled ale is the body's friendAnd makes the sick heart merry.
— Frans G. Bengtsson, The Long Ships
Quite possibly one of the most revealing passages about Shakespeare as a man comes from one of the roughest of the jottings made by gossip John Aubrey from his interview with William Beeston, son of the Christopher Beeston who had acted with Shakespeare's company. The partly cancelled note reads: 'the more to be admired, he was not a company keeper. [He] ... wouldn't be debauched, and if invited to, writ [i.e. wrote] he was in pain.' [Ch.24]
— Ian Wilson, Shakespeare: The Evidence: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Man and His Work
If we'd done this my way,' Garrett went on, 'We'd have been here much earlier.''And drunk, most likely,' said Maiev.'You say "drunk," I say "happy",' Garrett shrugged.
— Grant Smuts, Where The Gods Lie Dreaming
Common sense got drunk and giddy when Olivia was on the premises. Maybe he should just raise a glass, too, and dub reason a lost cause.
— Kelly Moran, Redemption
Natives of the Florida Keys often refer to themselves as Conchs, and for good reason: They have been drinking.
— Dave Barry, Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland
Does drinking make you wittier? One might as well ask if witting makes you drinkier, which it may.
— Benjamin Errett, Elements of Wit: Mastering the Art of Being Interesting
Being unkillable, so long as one had some healing power stored up, could do strange things to a person’s sense of self-preservation. Of course, Wayne had probably been drunk at the time. That also tended to do strange things to a person’s sense of self-preservation
— Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self
Life is better when you're drunk. I ought to become an alcoholic.
— Ahmed Mostafa
She was thinking of doing a little Cuervo therapy.
— Kelly Moran, Tracking You
Giving up alcohol is an asceticism for the modern do-gooder, drinking being, like sex, a pleasure that humans have always indulged in, involving a loss of self-control, the renunciation of which marks the renouncer as different and separate from other people. To drink, to get drunk, is to lower yourself on purpose for the sake of good fellowship. You abandon yourself, for a time, to life and fate. You allow yourself to become stupider and less distinct. Your boundaries become blurry: you open your self and feel connected to people around you. You throw off your moral scruples, and suspect it was only those scruples that prevented the feeling of connection before. You feel more empathy for your fellow, but at the same time, because you are drunk, you render yourself unable to help him; so, to drink is to say, I am a sinner, I have chosen not to help.
— Larissa MacFarquhar, Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
Actually, they fought to fill the emptiness of their lives as they filled their empty glasses. They fought—not because the liquor was in them, but because it did not fill them enough.
— Nelson Algren, The Neon Wilderness
There are strings in the human heart which must never be sounded by another, and drinks that I make myself are those strings in mine.
— Charles Dickens
Holy fuck,' Corcoran said, leaning back against the wall. 'I am going home and drinking a whole bottle of Bacardi. Someone can pour the Coke into me after I pass out.
— M.R. Carey, Fellside
He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other.
— Kenneth Eade, Russian Holiday
I’m only doing one more,” Ruby said, scrolling through her phone. “Nobody likes a day-drunk hussie.”“Hey, give yourself some credit. You’ll be a really cute day- drunk hussie.
— Daniel Younger, The Wrath of Con
Child, you’ve been trying to drown your sorrows for some time now. And the problem with that plan is, you can’t drown sorrows. They’re good swimmers. They’re gonna float back up to the top and be bobbing right where you left them last night.
— Terri Lee
Free drinks have no carbs.
— Nicki Elson, When It Hooks You
And there was this jerk named Dwayne who kept saying, 'Go on, have a beer. You know you want one. One little beer's not going to hurt ya. You haven't had a drink for three years. You can handle it.'" He looked at me again. "You know?"I nodded."Caught me when I was vulnerable. You know, when I was still breathing.
— Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods
Well,” he sighed, squeezing my hand back. “I guess we were both running away in different ways.”“What do you mean?”Dad shook his head. “Your mother took a Mustang. I took a whiskey bottle.” He reached up and readjusted his glasses, an unconscious habit-he always did it when he was making a point. “I was so devastated by what your mother did to me that I forgot how horrible drinking is. I forgot to look on the bright side.”“Dad,” I said, “I don’t think there is a bright side to divorce. It’s a pretty sucky thing all around.”He nodded. “Maybe that’s true, but there are a lot of bright sides to my life. I have a job I like, a nice house in a good neighborhood, and a wonderful daughter.”I rolled my eyes. “Oh God,” I muttered. “Don’t go all Lifetime movie on me. Seriously.”“I’m sorry,” he said, smiling. “But I mean it. A lot of people would kill for my life, but I didn’t even consider that. I took it-and you-for granted. I’m so, so sorry for that, Bumblebee.
— Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
Do not blame a person for drinking lest he is trying to forget something more serious than drinking.
— Kahlil Gibran, Third Treasury of Kahlil Gibran
i've had enough of this. if you'll excuse me, i'm going to find a tavern where i can pay an underdressed woman to sit it my lap and look very pleased with me while i drink heavily
— Lisa Kleypas, Cold-Hearted Rake
I drank through the buzz of befuddlement into perfect clarity and out again into the blissful confusion of true intoxication.
— John  Mole, It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina--and Real Greeks