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Rainey, you've forgotten something. You've forgotten that I'm not a guy that takes any crap. Not from anybody. You've forgotten I've been in business because I stayed alive longer than some guys who didn't want me that way. You've forgotten that I've had some punks tougher than you'll ever be on the end of a gun and I pulled the trigger just to watch their expressions change.
Mickey Spillane - Vengeance is Mine

Jesus Christ! Have you ever heard of anyone who drank while he worked? You're thinking of Faulkner. He does sometimes - and I can tell right in the middle of a page when he's had his first one.
Ernest Hemingway

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
William Faulkner

...to the race in general, alcohol as been an anodyne, a warmer of the soul, a strengthener of muscle and spirit. It has given courage to cowards and has made very ugly people attractive. There is a story told of a Swedish tramp, sitting in a ditch on Midsummer Night. He was ragged and dirty and drunk, and he said to himself softly and in wonder, "I am rich and happy and perhaps a little beautiful.
John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez