#alcohol

Alcohol is like love," he said. "The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#habitude #love #routine #love

Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday's television. Work and beer. The neighbor's dog, or those strange flowers, the way it smells at Maisen. Those ordinary things I talk about with you. With you... I want to talk about love with you. ↗

— Tomoko Yamashita

#coffee #fireworks #flowers #love #maisen

His abhorrence and fear of alcohol did not extend to his power as host. He kept a huge cupboard of drinks in the station house and loved to serve large measures to visiting relatives--especially those he disliked--about which there was a definite element of spreading bait for garden snails. ↗

— John McGahern

#hospitality #love

Looking For Love and Looking In All The Wrong Places ↗

— Gordon Rouston

#love

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#angry #angry person #became #due #i

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#any #horror #national #other #our

I had a real good thing going for me, and I got sidetracked. It doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be drugs. It doesn't have to be alcohol. That part of my life is over. ↗

— Ken Caminiti

#going #good #good thing #got #had

Trillian did a little research in the ship's copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It had some advice to offer on drunkenness. "Go to it," it said, "and good luck. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#humor #life

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood. ↗

— David Gest

#back #because #childhood #comes #demon

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#appreciation #back #children #feelings #i