{"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":"What. Are. You. Doing. Here?” Day snapped each word this time.'You’re not the only one that can track your lover,” God said smugly while holding up his phone with the application still open.Day’s mouth fell open and the shade of red he turned was priceless. He decided to get rid of their excess company and take Day back with him. God looked at Day’s date and put on his best run-for-your-life face and spat menacingly. “Leave. Now.”“No,” Day spoke before his date could move. “You don’t have to go anywhere, Mick.”God looked back to Day and spoke in a harsh growl without moving his eyes from his partner’s. “Mick, I say leave now. He says to stay. Whatever will you do?”Mick turned and ran so fast his image turned into a blur.“That takes care of that,” God said.Day pushed God out of his space and turned to walk away without another word.","author":"A.E. Via","tags":["bar","day","god"],"id":20194,"author_id":"A.E.+Via"},{"text":"Grow your talents and skills through a consistent practice and progressive learning. Learn to relearn and unlearn. Raise the bar for yourself always.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bar","excel","excellence","excellent","food-for-thought","great","greatness","grow","grow-great","growth","improve","improvement","increase","inspirational","inspirations","israelmore-ayivor","learn","motivational","motivations","personal-development","progress","progressive","raise-the-bar","relearn","skill","skillful","skills","unlearn"],"id":38400,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"~Posters with torn edges hanging from rotten walls~ The doctor told me something onceshe saidSTOP DRINKINGI slapped her across the face with thisNOI walked right out of that officewent right down to the holeI told the bartenderWHISKEY, MOTHERFUCKERhe poured and he pouredand I slapped my money down on that barthe man I had been driving around withhe just sort of sat there next to this hookershe probably had something rottenway down there between her legsher eyes told of no soulI emptied the bottle down my throatand ordered some chipsthe bartender told meTHEY'RE STALEand I give him a I DON'T FUCKIN' CARE,GIVE ME SOMETHIN'He slid me a ham sandwich dripping with cheap low-fat mayo and saidENJOYI went back to my roomand talked all nightso much conversationit turned the toilet bowl pale.","author":"Dave Matthes","tags":["alcoholism","ambition","bar","bar-nights","blood","booze","bottle","bravery","cynical","death"],"id":39377,"author_id":"Dave+Matthes"},{"text":"When I pass the bar, you'll be barred from bars but put behind them.","author":"Natalya Vorobyova","tags":["bar","bars","humor","law","lawyer","prison","wordplay"],"id":41486,"author_id":"Natalya+Vorobyova"},{"text":"The Albion was a spacious pub, built in the days when a public house with any pretensions to gentility had to have fourteen foot ceilings, brass taps and a polished wooden bar you skate down. ... Bert, in his reflective moments, considered that if heaven didn't have a well-appointed pub where a man could sit down over a beer for a yarn with the other angels, then he didn't want to go there.","author":"Kerry Greenwood","tags":["bar","heaven"],"id":49172,"author_id":"Kerry+Greenwood"},{"text":"Need 'nether whiskey. Whiskey chaser. Gotta get two men drunk.'Mr. Cohan placed both hands on the bar. 'Mr. Walsh,' he said severely, 'in Gavagan's we will serve a man a drink to wet his whistle, or even because his old woman has pasted him with a dornick, but a drink to get drunk with I do not sell. Now I'm telling you you've had enough for tonight, and in the morning you'll be thanking me...' ('My Brother's Keeper').","author":"Fletcher Pratt","tags":["alcohol","bar","drinking","drunk","tavern"],"id":58588,"author_id":"Fletcher+Pratt"},{"text":"When your partner is regularly going out to bars and nightclubs and does not come home until after sunrise, it is likely that they are engaging in some form of infidelity.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["after","bar","bars","engaging","form","going","home","infidelity","infidelity-in-marriage","infidelity-in-relationships","likely","night","nightclub","nightclubs","out","partner","regularly","some","sunrise","when"],"id":86466,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"I had a dream about you last night... It was about a dreamer and a drifter walking into a bar. They start talking and swapping stories. No matter what the drifter says the dreamer always one-upped him. The drifter then woke up and realized he was the dreamer.","author":"Marshall Ramsay","tags":["bar","conversation","dreaming","dreams","drifter","one-up","stories"],"id":116689,"author_id":"Marshall+Ramsay"},{"text":"Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.","author":"Ernest Hemingway","tags":["bar","nada","nothing","prayer"],"id":137649,"author_id":"Ernest+Hemingway"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}