{"quotes":[{"text":"Partying and dancing have never been my thing, but drinking I could do with reasonable familiarity and skills. I decided to begin there.","author":"Vann Chow","tags":["beers","coming-of-age","dating","drinking","drinking-alcohol","meeting-girls","party","partying"],"id":1706,"author_id":"Vann+Chow"},{"text":"Drink, drink! Bacchus is the enemy of Venus.'From The Diary Of An Orange Tree.","author":"Hanns Heinz Ewers","tags":["alcohol","bacchus","drinking","drinking-alcohol","seduction","venus"],"id":38811,"author_id":"Hanns+Heinz+Ewers"},{"text":"Does drinking make you wittier? One might as well ask if witting makes you drinkier, which it may.","author":"Benjamin Errett","tags":["drinking","drinking-alcohol","wit","witty"],"id":47993,"author_id":"Benjamin+Errett"},{"text":"I had drunk myself to oblivion,Stepped from the room into a dreamless slumber,My consciousness had parted ways,Taking a well-earned vacation.","author":"Morris R. Gates","tags":["addiction","alcohol","binge","binge-drinking","drinking","drinking-alcohol","drugs","escape","escapism"],"id":101452,"author_id":"Morris+R.+Gates"},{"text":"Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of changing the world.","author":"Guy Gavriel Kay","tags":["abitions","changing-the-world","dreams","drinking-alcohol","drunk","guy-gariel-kay","illusion","river-of-stars"],"id":116508,"author_id":"Guy+Gavriel+Kay"},{"text":"Alcohol is good at disinfecting things It can clean a surface or erase memories.","author":"Richard L. Ratliff","tags":["aa","alcohol","alcoholics-anonymous","clean","drink","drinking","drinking-alcohol","surface"],"id":123117,"author_id":"Richard+L.+Ratliff"},{"text":"I think he just loved being with the bears because they didn't make him feel bad. I get it too. When he was with the bears, they didn't care that he was kind of weird, or that he'd gotten into trouble for drinking too much and using drugs(which apparently he did a lot of). They didn't ask him a bunch of stupid questions about how he felt, or why he did what he did. They just let him be who he was.","author":"Michael Thomas Ford","tags":["animal-kindness","animals","animals-love","bears","curiosity","drinking","drinking-alcohol","drug-addiction","drugs","feeling-bad","freedom","letting-down","lonliness","misanthropy","people","people-suck","personality","questions","stupid-people","stupidity","suicidal","suicidal-thoughts","suicide-notes"],"id":244660,"author_id":"Michael+Thomas+Ford"},{"text":"How about a drop of something to cut the phlegm?Why don't you stay sober today?We didn't come to New York to stay sober.","author":"Dashiell Hammett","tags":["drinking-alcohol","new-york-city","sober"],"id":251963,"author_id":"Dashiell+Hammett"},{"text":"Isolde took a swig. 'It doesn't matter if you believe it or not. Your government just gave you two months to get knocked up.' She held up the bottle, her face dull and red. 'Cheers.' 'You better get your fill of the booze now, then,' said Xochi. 'You'll be drinking for two pretty soon.","author":"Dan Wells","tags":["drinking-alcohol","dystopian","humorous"],"id":325342,"author_id":"Dan+Wells"},{"text":"Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts… for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles… these things fill men’s hearts with joy and remind one that life’s bounty is not always fleeting but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["alcohol","champagne","drinking","drinking-alcohol","roman-payne","rooftop-soliloquy"],"id":343286,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}