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"When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place."
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"Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as many outlaws as has the central nervous system and dissatisfied wives. Tequila, scorpion honey, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Aztec, crema de cacti; tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution; tequila, liquid geometry of passion; Tequila, the buzzard god who copulates in midair with the ascending souls of dying virgins; tequila, firebug in the house of good taste; O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate!"

"I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow."

"I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking."

"It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself."

"I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice - I don't know if I'm coming or going."
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"Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage."

"Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood."

"The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him."

"Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers."

"I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines."
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