#oh

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#hedonism #nihilism #behavior

[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told. ↗

— Homer

#storytelling #truth #wine #storytelling

Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered. ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #pride

I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones. ↗

— Xander Berkeley

#cohen #help #i #jones #scorsese

I really hope he shapes up, you know? He’s got a good head on his shoulders when he’s not trying to give himself alcohol poisoning. ↗

— Hailey Abbott

#alcohol

When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon. ↗

— James Crumley

#detective-novel #mystery #alcohol

Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?' Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, and I'd drunk too much wine', the dwarf told him. 'I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#alcohol #drunk #dwarf #feast #jon-snow

If I have a near-beer, I’m near beer. And if I’m near beer, I’m close to tequila. And if I’m close to tequila, I’m adjacent to cocaine. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#beer #cocaine #drinking #drugs #tequila

That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed. ↗

— Richard Matheson

#alcohol

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol. ↗

— Pamela Dean

#reading #alcohol