#drunk

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

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He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk. ↗

— Epictetus

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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. ↗