They say that secrets live at the bottom of a wine bottle. Mama had made it there the night before, slow glass by slow glass, but she'd never spoken a word.
Alethea KontisTags: drinking secrets enchanted alethea-kontis
One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls. Not unlike a tour of Afghanistan (though the bombs and bullets, in this case, come from the inside). At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you're living with this illness and functioning at all, it's something to be proud of, not ashamed of.
They should issue medals along with the steady stream of medication.
Tags: courage shame drinking illness depression mental-health mental-illness medication manic-depression mental bipolar sigma
Kid, I've only known you two days and I've seen you plastered three times." He shook his head. "A bar would not be a good career move for you.
Jennifer CrusieI knew what Charley would do. He would spend the evening drinking himself into the mindset of a cinder block. If they had given him as much as a hundred bucks, it would be a long night.
Dan AhearnTags: humor drinking drunkenness
He finished his drink. 'I don’t like mornings either,' he said. “That’s why I’m a writer.
Dorothy B. HughesYou think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love... but I tell you this, something is coming, and we'd be fools to ignore it."
"When have I ever claimed not to be a fool?
Tags: love dancing drinking fool magnus-bane aldous-nix
I was a fool, alone, preparing to do what every fool did at such times—I was going to a bar to drink myself smart.
Genna RulonTags: intelligence drinking fools alcohol smart fool bar hard-times
The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled - by the Internet, by the recession, by the American public, who would rather watch TV or play video games or electronically inform friends that, like, 'rain sucks!' But there's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.
Gillian FlynnTags: change technology drinking sarcasm video-games alcohol americans new-age the-future recession tv bar the-past changes electronics the-internet electronic-books bourbon a-drink electronic-revolution electronic-software the-public the-recession
We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned.
Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one else would really get, like we did. Not meta-get ... But our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and a pink jogging suit, said, "I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Audrey Hepburn's cat was named Cat.
Tags: loss vanity drinking failure alcohol irony cat bar new-beginnings bars audrey-hepburn snobs breakfast-at-tiffany-s the-recession new-yorkers
Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.
Gillian FlynnTags: thinking cats sleep ignorance drinking alone self-assurance alcohol lonely sleeping thoughts alcoholic cat insomnia mantra murphy-s-law the-mind talking-to-yourself ignoring voices-inside-your-head thinking-process playing-hard-to-get binging empty-your-head stop-thinking
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