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You're walking down Fool's Street, Laura used to say when he was drinking, and she had been right. He had known even then that she was right, but knowing had made no difference; he had simply laughed at her fears and gone on walking down it, till finally he had stumbled and fell. Then, for a long time, he stayed away, and if he had stayed away long enough he would have been all right; but one night he began walking down it again - and met the girl. It was inevitable that on Fool's Street there should be women as well as wine. He had walked down it many times in many different towns, and now he was walking down it once again in yet another town. Fool's Street never changed, no matter where you went, and this one was no different from the others. The same skeletonic signs bled beer names in vacant windows; the same winos sat in doorways nursing muscatel; the same drunk tank awaited you when at last your reeling footsteps failed. And if the sky was darker than usual, it was only because of the rain which had begun falling early that morning and been falling steadily ever since.

Your greatest regrets in life will not come from your past failures; they would come from remembering the amount of time you spent in pursuing vain things.

You tasted like fire And I miss that. So, at times I drank a little. And at times, I drank too much. But I only drank Till it burned me enough.

You were like fine wine, but cheap wine gets you drunk faster.

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.

About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs.

Addiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol or to anything else.

A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.

A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.

A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.

Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger.

After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back to the bus and smooth it away. Sometimes you need something alcohol-based, especially on tour when you don't always get a chance to keep washing your face all the time.

Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.

Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.

Alcohol causes conflicts, firearms resolve conflicts.

Alcohol is perfect for me to curb the nerves a little bit.

Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.

Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

Alcohol, contrary to instinct, is not the secret to happiness.

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.

Alcohol is for drinking, gas is for cleaning parts, and nitro is for racing!

Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.

Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

Alcohol does kill brain cells, because you've lost it.

Alcohol is a big part of high school. I went through my little phase. I don't know one high schooler that doesn't.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more.

Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

Alcohol is the number one addictive drug in our day.

Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.

Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God.

Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception.

Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

Alcohol kills slowly. Good, I'm in no hurry.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

Alcohol is like pouring smiles on your brain.

All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.