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“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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Madness, as you know, is like Gravity. All it takes is a little... Push
- The Joker

What doesn't kill you makes you stranger
- The Joker

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
- Charles Bukowski

Less is more and none is everything
- Nicolas Winding Refn

Courage is the complement of fear. One who is fearless cannot be courageous, and is also a fool.
- Heinlein

It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired.
- Heinlein

Specialization is for insects.
- Heinlein

One person's "magic" is another person's engineering.
- Heinlein

If you are one of the minority who can do creative work, never force an idea. Learn to wait.
- Heinlein

A "critic" is one who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of the creative.
- Heinlein

Duty is not what others expect of you; it is what you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you assume voluntarily.
- Heinlein

Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. So learn to say NO!
- Heinlein

Cyberspace: Representation of All Data of Every Node in the System.
- Gibson (Neuromancer)

You can't always get what you want, BUT if you try, you just might get what you need
- Glimmer Twins

Existence itself may be considered an abyss possessed of no meaning. I do not read this as a pessimistic statement. If it be true, then I can see in it nothing else but a declaration of autonomy for my imagination & will--& for the most beautiful act they can conceive with which to bestow meaning upon existence.
- Hakim Bey

Good has to be desired, it is the result of an act of willpower, while evil is continous.
-Antonin Artaud, Theatre and its Double

"One may say that evil does not exist for Subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good".
- G.I. Gurdjieff

If a man is talking in the forest, and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong?
- Al Bundy

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage.
Courage is the most desperate, admirable, and noble kind of love
- Delmore Schwarz

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell.... Kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
- Marquis de Sade, Last Will and Testament

"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity"
- Hunter S. Thompson