„A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.“

— Chuck Palahniuk

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„I found some consolation or narcotic. Sometimes it was a woman, sometimes a good friend — yes, you too once helped me that way — at other times it was music or applause in the theater. But now these things no longer give me pleasure and that is why I drink. I could never sing without first having a couple of drinks, but now I can also not think, talk, live and feel tolerably well without first having a couple of drinks.“
— Hermann Hesse
„Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.“
— Franz Kafka
„First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.“
— Pablo Picasso
„It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald