“Initially, I drank to have fun. As time passed, I drank to feel different, to feel better. I never questioned its’ veracity.”
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
— William James, Varieties of R.E.
Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false.
— Page xxvi Alcoholics Anonymous
