“They loved him, or loved the thought of him, what they thought he was: a man who could easily have had a good life who chose instead their life: spite and bitterness and age-fogged glasses of watery whiskey in dark, cobwebbed country bars, shit-smeared toilets, blood-streaked piss, and early death. He could have helped it but didn't. They couldn't help it and loved him for being worse than them. He was the king of the wasters.” Human NatureLifestyleFathersLosersDrunksHuman FailingsDeadbeats Book:The Spinning Heart Source: The Spinning Heart
“Older drunks tend to live in the past, mainly because they are destroying the present, and have little care for the future.” PastFuturePresentAlcoholicsDrunksAddcitionAdddicts Author:Robert Black
“Alcohol is often the last refuge of a beaten people. In that fiery liquid, any honour in defeat vanishes, and, in the eyes of the enemy, they become the pathetic, caricatured wretches they sought to make them from the beginning.” PrejudiceAlcoholPropagandaAlcoholismAlcoholicsAlcohol AbuseColonisationDrunksThe IrishFirewater Author:Stewart Stafford
“In the company of drunks, a non-drunk becomes a leader.” DrunkSoberDrunkardsSober LivingDrunkardDrunk QuotesDrunksSobernessClear HeadedNon Drunk Author:Tamerlan Kuzgov
“From a frost-white dwelling emerged a man whose bird’s nest hair and pantomime complexion betrayed a long affair with the vine. His foghorn voice spewed forth an impure torrent of oafish ignorance, pronouncements that could have penetrated through walls from indoors.” IgnoranceAppearanceInsultUncouthInsults And SlanderDrunksOffensive ViewsLoud VoiceOafOffensive People Author:Stewart Stafford
“In the company of drunks, a non-drinker becomes a leader.” DrunkSoberDrunkennessDrunkardsSober LivingDrunkardDrunksSobernessClear HeadedNon Drinker Author:Tamerlan Kuzgov
“And you know what the worst thing was? The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.” PoetryWorstPoemSoberAlcoholismSobrietyNobodyAlchoholBelievedDrunksWorst ThingWe Tried Author:Jack McCarthy