Marguerite Duras Quotes

It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.'

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

I have been drunk now for over two weeks.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I drink too much, way too much; my doctor drew blood he ran a tab!

I can drink like a fish, or at least, someone born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it.

I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

I lose all control after two drinks of anything.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

Of course one should not drink much, but often.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.

You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.

I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it'd kill me. If I'd have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.

I think that I'm coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.

[Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies.