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No wonder this ends up being the season when so many resolutions are made! ### Buy The Book [](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/323243) ### The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker [Barnes & Noble](http://links.penguinrandomhouse.com/type/affiliate/isbn/9780143039532/siteID/301/retailerid/2/trackingcode/PRH5DF76EF63A13)[Indiebound](http://links.penguinrandomhouse.com/type/affiliate/isbn/9780143039532/siteID/301/retailerid/6/trackingcode/biographile)[Amazon](http://links.penguinrandomhouse.com/type/affiliate/isbn/9780143039532/siteID/301/retailerid/7/trackingcode/randohouseinc21219-20)[Apple Books](http://links.penguinrandomhouse.com/type/affiliate/isbn/9780143039532/siteID/301/retailerid/3/trackingcode/PRH5DF76EF63A13) While alcohol can sand off some of the rough edges when it comes to socializing, there’s a point past which you’re just sending yourself down in flames — and when that moment comes, you might not even sense the shift. No one knows this better than authors, for whom drinking and parties seem to be necessary evils. If you see through their ironic detachment, the following quotes will make a strong case for why it might be a bad idea to defer your self-improvement goals until after the holidays. **Edgar Allan Poe, as quoted by Sarah H. Whitman in *Edgar Poe and His Critics*, 1860** "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." **Carson McCullers,* The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter*, 1940** "Next to music, beer was best." **Dorothy Parker, *The Collected Dorothy Parker*, 2007** "I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I’m under the table, after four I’m under my host." **Chelsea Handler, *My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands*, 2005** "The thought of giving up alcohol crossed my mind too, but I was soon reminded of the promise to Ketel One, Grey Goose, and other top-shelf vodkas that I had made in my early twenties. Never turn your back on someone who has asked nothing in return." **Sylvia Plath, *The Bell Jar*, 1963** "I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike." **Tom Robbins, *Still Life with Woodpecker*, 1980** "Tequila, scorpion honey, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Aztec, crema de cacti; tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution; tequila, liquid geometry of passion; Tequila, the buzzard god who copulates in midair with the ascending souls of dying virgins; tequila, firebug in the house of good taste; O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate!" **Raymond Chandler, *The Long Goodbye*, 1953** "A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can’t predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before." **Haruki Murakami, *A Wild Sheep Chase*, 1982** "As with most habitual drinkers, he was a nice enough, regular-if-not-exactly-sharp kind of guy when sober. Everyone thought of him as a nice-enough, regular-if-not-exactly-sharp kind of guy. He thought so too. That’s why he drank. Because it seemed that with alcohol in his system, he could more fully embody this idea of being that kind of guy." **Jack Kerouac, *On the Road*, 1957** "I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk." **Hāfez, *Hafiz of Shiraz*, 2003** "Come, let’s get drunk, even if it is our ruin: For sometimes under ruins one finds treasure." **Anne Rice, *The Vampire Lestat*, 1985** "We were at that moment of drunkenness that the two of us had come to call the Golden Moment, when everything made sense. 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