First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink t…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2011). On Booze (New Directions Pearls), p.92, New Directions Publishing
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2011). On Booze (New Directions Pearls), p.92, New Directions Publishing

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