{"quotes":[{"text":"When I pass the bar, you'll be barred from bars but put behind them.","author":"Natalya Vorobyova","tags":["bar","bars","humor","law","lawyer","prison","wordplay"],"id":41486,"author_id":"Natalya+Vorobyova"},{"text":"I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?","author":"John Waters","tags":["bars","liquor","prison"],"id":55133,"author_id":"John+Waters"},{"text":"When your partner is regularly going out to bars and nightclubs and does not come home until after sunrise, it is likely that they are engaging in some form of infidelity.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["after","bar","bars","engaging","form","going","home","infidelity","infidelity-in-marriage","infidelity-in-relationships","likely","night","nightclub","nightclubs","out","partner","regularly","some","sunrise","when"],"id":86466,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"And because I found it in my youth, the bar was that much more sacred, its image clouded by that special reverence children accord those places where they feel safe. Others might feel this way about a classroom or playground, a theater or church, a laboratory or library or stadium. Even a home. But none of these places claimed me. We exalt what is at hand. Had I grown up beside a river or an ocean, some natural avenue of self-discovery and escape, I might have mythologized it. Instead I grew up 142 steps from a glorious old American tavern, and that has made all the difference.","author":"J.R. Moehringer","tags":["bars","memory","tavern","youth"],"id":92629,"author_id":"J.R.+Moehringer"},{"text":"Bruce has always been so nice to me, which is crazy, because he's one of my heroes. I'll never forget being at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony the year Bruce and Paul McCartney were inducted. We were at the bar, and Bruce was talking to Paul, and he turned to me and said, 'I can't believe I'm talking to Paul McCartney!' I thought, 'I can't believe I'm talking to Bruce Springsteen, who's talking to Paul McCartney!","author":"Melissa Etheridge","tags":["bars","bruce-springsteen","fans","heroes","music","paul-mccartney","rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame"],"id":125495,"author_id":"Melissa+Etheridge"},{"text":"It did occur to him that perhaps he’d gone to the wrong Academy – the guys in the Space Fleet always had more interesting stories to tell at the spaceport bars. You know, tales about the dude who got vaporized in a plasma accident in the engineering section, or the fella who got turned into a blob of weird space jelly by some alien virus – or the time someone flew a starship into an astor-field at warp four by mistake (they were still trying to find the black box on that one). The Imperial Space Fleet’s recruiting office sure didn’t go around advertising ‘Join up, see the universe, meet interesting aliens and die screaming’, but it was known there were risks involved. It was part of the job after all, and yet somehow, they still got recruits signing up in droves. Yes, indeedy – the stories were far more interesting than his – took a load of ore to Gorda, took a load of mining equipment back to Tordrazil. Took a load of Florpavian Flame-birds to a zoo on Deanna, took a load of machinery to Salus. Picked up and dropped off a few passengers on the way. Still, Florpavian Flame-birds were a risky cargo… and damned tricky to transport – which is probably the only reason he’d had any entertainment at all on the last trip.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["academy","after","aliens","and","any","bars","birds","by","cargo","deanna","dropped","droves","engineering","find","flame","flew","florpavian","four","gone","gorda","got","had","imperial","indeedy","interesting","involved","it","job","know","machinery","of","off","office","one","recruits","risky","salus","screaming","section","see","some","somehow","someone","space","still","stories","sure","than","the","there","to","took","tordrazil","transport","trip","turned","universe","up","vaporized","virus","warp","way","were","which","yes","you"],"id":145323,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"- Why'd you even think I'd read your diploma before, during, or after buying 10 copies of it in an all-you-can-drink online bar? - If I could drink what I read, I'd probably still be drunk on Joyce's Ulysses. I should've chased it with a racer.-Stefan D and Jarod Kintz.","author":"Stefan D","tags":["bars","diploma","drinking","education","goals","reading","school"],"id":176225,"author_id":"Stefan+D"},{"text":"I looked around the barroom. Someone else might have seen nothing more than a random crowd of drinkers, but I saw my people. Kith and kin. Every sort of person was there – stockbrokers and safecrackers, athletes and invalids, mothers and supermodels – but we were as one. We’d all been hurt by something, or somebody, and so we’d all come to Publicans, because misery loves company, but what it really craves is a crowd.","author":"J.R. Moehringer","tags":["bars","misery"],"id":183522,"author_id":"J.R.+Moehringer"},{"text":"If Canada had a soul (a doubtful proposition, Moses thought) then it wasn't to be found in Batoche or the Plains of Abraham or Fort Walsh or Charlottetown or Parliament Hill, but in The Caboose and thousands of bars like it that knit the country together from Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, to the far side of Vancouver Island.","author":"Mordecai Richler","tags":["alcoholics","bars","canada","canadiennes","culture","english","irish","mutts","natives","scottish","soul","true-north-strong-and-free"],"id":233494,"author_id":"Mordecai+Richler"},{"text":"After the Stonewall riots the gay activists had their idealistic hearts in the right place but it turned out they had underestimated the realpolitik of organized crime. Indeed, as gay liberation blossomed in the wild 1970s the bars and bathhouses became increasingly lucrative enterprises, and the Mafia had no intention of abandoning a racket it had controlled for decades. The Mafia families maintained their control by exercising the proverbial carrot and stick. The wise guys seemingly embraced the gay rights movement and cut more so-called Auntie Gays into the action as their fronts, and resorted to violent threats and sometimes murder against others who refused to play ball with the crime families. There were few legitimate businessmen in gay nightlife of the 1970s.","author":"Phillip Crawford Jr.","tags":["1970s","bars","gay-history","lgbt","mafia","nightlife","stonewall-riots"],"id":289248,"author_id":"Phillip+Crawford+Jr."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}