Big Book, p. 30:

Quote:

We alcoholics are men and women who have lost
the ability to control our drinking. We know that no
real alcoholic ever recovers control. All of us felt at
times that we were regaining control, but such inter-
vals—usually brief—were inevitably followed by still
less control, which led in time to pitiful and incompre-
hensible demoralization. We are convinced to a man
that alcoholics of our type are in the grip of a progres-
sive illness. Over any considerable period we get
worse, never better.



Later, p. 33:

Quote:

Most of us
have believed that if we remained sober for a long
stretch, we could thereafter drink normally. But here
is a man who at fifty-five years found he was just
where he had left off at thirty. We have seen the truth
demonstrated again and again: “Once an alcoholic, al-
ways an alcoholic.’’ Commencing to drink after a
period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as
ever. If we are planning to stop drinking, there must
be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion
that someday we will be immune to alcohol.


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Fuck 'em all but nine.