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"Congratulations!Today is your day. You're off to Great Places!You're off and away!"
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"He spoke in a trembling voice that didn’t seem to be entirely in sync with the movement of his lips. That’s because sound travels slower in halitosis."
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"Sometimes, I wondered if I might speed up his words by grabbing his wrists and finishing his gestures for him."
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"Why question what Froi of Lumatere was doing here' he asked.' When you should be questioning what would have happened to Charyn if he hadn't been here. Who else would have saved Gargarin of Abroi from the street lords? … 'Who would have saved Quintana of Charyn from hanging? Who would have rescued her from Tariq of Lascow's compound? Who would have sent her to a safe place to birth the cursebreaker? Blah, blah, blah. I'm bored now,' Finnikin said, looking around."
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"People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolor left in the rain. To understand what anyone is saying to us we must separate these noises into words and the words into sentences so that we might in our turn issue a stream of mixed sounds in response. If what we say is suitably apt and amusing, the listener will show his delight by emitting a series of uncontrolled high-pitched noises, accompanied by sharp intakes of breath of the sort normally associated with a seizure or heart failure. And by these means we converse. Talking, when you think about it, is a very strange business indeed."
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"Trillian did a little research in the ship's copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It had some advice to offer on drunkenness. "Go to it," it said, "and good luck."
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"There was something ghost-like and insubstantial about gases to these early chemists. They called liquids that turned into gases easily, "spirits." Methyl alcohol, they called "wood spirit"; ethyl alcohol, "wine spirit." Even today, alcoholic beverages are frequently referred to as "spirits." (Modern Arabs, from whose language the word "alcohol" was taken, call ethyl alcohol "spirit" from the English. This is a queer exchange.)"
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"If you want to keep your dignity intact, stay away from tequila."
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"My mother agreed to aid my abuse of alcohol but only if I promised never to tell my newly converted Mormon sister, whose identity I had stolen."
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"I have a question. Is it okay to drink while you're pregnant...if you're planning on giving the baby up for adoption?"
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"I'm more than a few neurons shy of a synapse right now, and it feels absolutely fan-fucking-tastic."
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"He was so drunk that he would have stubbornly denied that he was."
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"You always miss 100% of the shots you don't order"
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"When a man is on the road to power he buys everyone a drink. Once elected he tries to close the saloons."
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"Now, my intention was to drink just enough to dull the senses, but intentions should never be mixed with alcohol."
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"In the eleventh century obese English king William the Conqueror took to bed and consumed nothing but alcohol to shed pounds, a practice many of his countrymen seem to continue to this day."
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"He had probably been thrown out of a wine shop, and it hadn't quite dawned on him yet."
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"Volnaka ... did a remarkable job of getting anyone drunk with alacrity. It also worked well as a combustible in lamps, as paint remover, was a marvelous antiseptic and was singularly effective at erasing any memory of ever having imbibed it"
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"I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep."
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"In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life."
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