IRC-Galleria

“I went out last night and didn’t drink a drop. I talked all night and in the morning I remembered everything I said. It was horrifying.”
Juan R. explaining his third shot of the afternoon at SwankyÂ’s.

“If you don’t drink in the morning, you can’t be drunk all day.”
Uncle Tom breaking out philosophy and the first beer of the morning.

“I’m afraid of three things: Women, snakes, and the police. They all have the ability to hurt me and make it look like it was my fault.”
Gil H. sums up his fears at Auntie MaeÂ’s Parlor in Manhattan, KS.

“I’ll fuck the guinea pig but I won’t be the fuckin’ guinea pig.”
Jeff being dared to jump off a balcony into the Chicago River.

“I used to live to work. Then I worked to live. Then I worked to drink. Now I must drink to work.”
G.J. clocking in at work, partly drunk and fully functional.

”No wonder you were sick—look at all the puke you swallowed!”
A bartenderÂ’s pithy diagnosis of a patron face down on the bar

“Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.”
Tony R., footloose, rent-free and begging for spare change in front of the Denver Public Library.

“Drink up and be somebody.”
The sagacious Denver Joe at the Cricket on the Hill

"I tried that work thing and I just couldn't get behind it. I mean, you go to work, you get off, you eat some awful meal, you watch some t.v., you go to bed, you wake up and then whole fucking thing stars over again. I mean, there's just no end to it."
Rolly, age 33, unemployed and loving it under a tree along Speer Ave.

"I don't drink to escape or to forget or because I can't handle real life. I drink because whiskey is the key that sets the monkey free."
Daniel at the Lion's Lair Lounge, getting an early start on the afternoon.

“People tell me, ‘Oh, you just drink to escape your problems.’ Well, no shit. I’d eat rat heads if it let me ditch my problems.”
Fred R. spells it all out in front of WalgreenÂ’s.

“Drinking blows my brains out. It blows out all the crap in my head and allows new and better ideas to seep in.”
Michael C. pulling the trigger on a double bourbon at the Streets of London Pub.

“I drink because I prefer the company of drunks, and they don’t like sober people hanging around, making faces.”
Tim M. making sure no one feels uncomfortable at the LionÂ’s Lair.

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