“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”

“He took down his drink as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass.”

“Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.”

“Dick walked beside her, feeling her unhappiness, and wanting to drink the rain that touched her cheek.”

“What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink.”

“Afterwards, he just sat, happy to live in the past. The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again.”