{"quotes":[{"text":"If you get drunk today ask yourself why you never got drunk yesterday, and if you got drunk yesterday ask yourself today why you got drunk yesterday. Drunkenness is bad when it affects someone’s life in a bad way.","author":"Simon Mashalla","tags":["ask-yourself","bad","drunk","drunkenness","today","yesterday"],"id":6111,"author_id":"Simon+Mashalla"},{"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":"At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers.","author":"Warren Ellis","tags":["airport","drunkenness","humor","security"],"id":19720,"author_id":"Warren+Ellis"},{"text":"It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down.' -Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, p. 76.","author":"Milan Kundera","tags":["drunkenness","helplessness","weakness"],"id":31000,"author_id":"Milan+Kundera"},{"text":"There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness.","author":"F. Scott Fitzgerald","tags":["drinking","drunkenness"],"id":31387,"author_id":"F.+Scott+Fitzgerald"},{"text":"O, you the goldfish ofthe swamp of my blood.Let your drunkenness be pretty.You are drinking me.","author":"Forough Farrokhzad","tags":["blood","drunkenness"],"id":32195,"author_id":"Forough+Farrokhzad"},{"text":"Whoever said that a drunk mind speaks sober thoughts...Was clearly still drunk off their ass. -Jackson 'Blame It on the Pain.","author":"Ashley Jade","tags":["alcohol","drunk","drunkenness","funny","funny-guys"],"id":38977,"author_id":"Ashley+Jade"},{"text":"The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours.The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love.Since this wine is love,then this cup is love,then this tavern is love,then this life is love.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["awareness","begets","beloved","bliss","consciousness","cup","cupbearer","drinking","drinks","drunk","drunken","drunkenness","ecstasy","enjoy","enjoyment","euphoria","faith","god","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","live-in-the-moment","love","love-begets-love","love-is-love","love-poems","love","love-wins","lover","loving","merriment","one-love","oneness","pours","presence","present","religion","spiritual","spirituality","sufi","sufi-poems","sufi","sufism","tavern","togetherness","transcend","transcendence","union","unity","wine"],"id":46798,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"I am tough for a reason and it is to fucking destroy the music. I dance hard.","author":"Hannah Moskowitz","tags":["drunkenness","music"],"id":61954,"author_id":"Hannah+Moskowitz"},{"text":"Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["drunkenness","insanity"],"id":64948,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":47,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}