01UndatedI cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore.Robert Black / quote ↗
02UndatedWhen you are young your body cannot handle alcohol, and when you get old your mind cannot handle it. Either way, alcohol has its way.Robert Black / quote ↗
03UndatedThe thing about alcohol, though non-drinkers, non-alcoholics and reformed alcoholics may falsely dispute this, is that each day, or night on booze, is a different journey, the destination being a mystery, but quite possibly the final one.Robert Black / quote ↗
04UndatedDay zero, the disaster, the serious shock, the near self-destruction.Day two, the suffering, the repentance, the depression, and the promises.Day three, the recovery, the wall, some light, and the joy.Day four, the strength, the resolution, the celebration, and the plan.Day five, exercise to purify and strengthen, the first twinge, small and beaten.Day six, many twinges, major twinges, the doubt, the questions, the boredom, the resentment, and the wall begins to crumble.Day seven, off to buy booze.Robert Black / quote ↗
05UndatedPeople spend half of their free time drinking alcohol and the other half watching totally sober people on television. And they want to be those people, live those lives. Ever wondered why we rarely see a person actually drinking alcohol on television? It’s because they would come across embarrassing sad-assed losers. They just wouldn't be entertaining. They would think they were.Robert Black / quote ↗
06UndatedIf I only drink beer, nothing stronger, then by the end of the night I can generally recognize myself as a reasonable human being, and more importantly, wake up that way.Robert Black / quote ↗
08UndatedThat drinking thing, the night before an early morning start, I actually think it helps the productivity in some ways (as long as it's not spirits) it gives you that I don't give a fuck attitude, more relaxed, I'm getting away with it after all, I had a life last night, and now I may be hungover, but I had that secret world that you didn't have, and that you tried to take away from me, want to take away from me. But I still got that beer buzz. And I'll do it again, tomorrow night too. I'll never surrender. And when I'm working, I'll be thinking about it. Those moments of mine, truly mine, that you can never have or take away from me.Robert Black / quote ↗
09UndatedWhen you are gambling, though you probably do not know it, your mind is on the tide, the ebb and flow of the Universe, and there is no way to fight it. Going with the flow is the only option, so there is no point in struggling against it, but, it will tell you how you sit with God, or the Universe, at that particular time in your life.Robert Black / quote ↗
10UndatedAnyone who craves an afterlife has not lived their life to the fullest.Robert Black / quote ↗
12UndatedThose who hate lawyers, have either hired the wrong one and lost, represented themselves and lost, or had such a bad case that no lawyer could win it.Robert Black / quote ↗
13UndatedThere is some kind of elegant gentleness to Paris that I don't quite understand yet.Robert Black / quote ↗