{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Genna Rulon","tags":["alcohol","bar","drinking","fool","fools","hard-times","intelligence","smart"],"id":270,"author_id":"Genna+Rulon"},{"text":"My dream was one day ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.","author":"Sylvia Plath","tags":["alcohol","drink","expectation","reality","society","taste"],"id":1081,"author_id":"Sylvia+Plath"},{"text":"The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors.","author":"Asa Don Brown","tags":["addict","addiction","addictive-behavior","alcohol","asa-don-brown","domestic-violence","drugs","substances","the-sober-world-magazine"],"id":3387,"author_id":"Asa+Don+Brown"},{"text":"I lay in bed that night, a first-time drunkard at seven years of age, pondering the punishment I knew would arrive on callused palms. In the forest, as if sensing my plight, wolves howled nocturnal laments. The magnificent lunar lullabies of my lupine brethren wooed me into a deep and cleansing sleep.","author":"Mark Rice","tags":["alcohol","heavy-metal","mark-rice","metallic-dreams","punishment","sleep","wolves"],"id":6825,"author_id":"Mark+Rice"},{"text":"When you drink alcohol you are just borrowing happiness from tomorrow.","author":"Jessica Nigri","tags":["alcohol","drunk","happiness"],"id":7729,"author_id":"Jessica+Nigri"},{"text":"Do not seek solace in alcohol. Alcohol obscures good judgment and leaves you unable to think clearly or understand what God is trying to say to you.","author":"Billy Graham","tags":["addiction","alcohol","billy-graham"],"id":8260,"author_id":"Billy+Graham"},{"text":"Some drink to forget, I drink to remember. I drink in order to understand what I mean and to discover what I know. Under its benign influence all the stories and dramas which properly belong to the sphere of art are announced by me in conversation.","author":"Peter Ackroyd","tags":["alcohol","humour","oscar-wilde"],"id":8859,"author_id":"Peter+Ackroyd"},{"text":"[Alcohol] not only replaces positive actions which would address the root causes of our despondency – it prevents them, as more energy becomes focused on achieving and recovering from the drunken state.","author":"CrimethInc.","tags":["action","alcohol","drunkenness"],"id":10085,"author_id":"CrimethInc."},{"text":"You tasted like fireAnd I miss that.So, at timesI drank a little.And at times,I drank too much.But I only drankTill it burned me enough.","author":"Saiber","tags":["absence","alcohol","breakup","burn","drinking","fire","love","missing","relationships"],"id":11349,"author_id":"Saiber"},{"text":"Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid.","author":"Jeffrey Fry","tags":["alcohol","fame","make","money","stupid","too-much"],"id":12834,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Fry"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":472,"pages":48,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}