Alternative Reel’e göre en iyi Amerikalı ayyaş yazarlar aşağıdaki gibi sıralanıyor. Listenin
bazı sıralarında beraberlikler söz konusu. Yazarların sarhoşluk, içki, ayyaşlık
hakkında söyledikleri sözler de belirtilmiş durumda:
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- RAYMOND CHANDLER [1888-1959]
“Alcohol
is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is
routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.”
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- FREDERICK EXLEY [1929-92]
"After
a month's sobriety my faculties became unbearably acute and I found myself
unhealthily clairvoyant, having insights into places I'd as soon not journey
to. Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used
alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental
exhilaration produced by extended sobriety."
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- HARRY CREWS [1935-2012]
"Alcohol
whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed,
we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band
had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and
I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'."
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- JACK KEROUAC [1922-69]
"As
I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind."
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- JACK LONDON [1876-1916]
"I
was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed
on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There was no time, in all my waking
time, that I didn't want a drink. I began to anticipate the completion of my
daily thousand words by taking a drink when only five hundred words were
written. It was not long until I prefaced the beginning of the thousand words
with a drink."
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- F. SCOTT FITZGERALD [1896-1940]
"First
you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
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- EDGAR ALLAN POE [1809-49]
"I
have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly
indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life
and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from
torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of
some strange impending doom."
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- Beraberlik: WILLIAM FAULKNER [1897-1962] & DOROTHY PARKER [1897-1967]
“There
is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than
others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn
fool if he doesn't.” —Faulkner
"I'd
rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy." -Parker
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- Beraberlik: ERNEST HEMINGWAY [1899-1961] & HUNTER S. THOMPSON [1937-2005]
"An
intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his
fools." - Hemingway
"I
hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've
always worked for me." - Thompson
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- CHARLES BUKOWSKI [1920-94]
"Drinking
is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life,
out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind
and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of
suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day.
It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about
ten or fifteen thousand lives now."