## Metadata - Author: [[J.R. Moehringer]] - Full Title: The Tender Bar - Category: #books ## Highlights - While I fear that we’re drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we’re defined by what embraces ([Location 96](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FCKEX6&location=96)) - Tags: [[pink]] - They let it slide only because they so thoroughly approved of Steve’s Cardinal Rule of the Barroom: Every third drink free. ([Location 104](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FCKEX6&location=104)) - Year in, year out, Manhasset produced a disproportionate number of superb lacrosse players and a still-greater number of distended livers. ([Location 131](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FCKEX6&location=131)) - So long as you drank publicly, not secretly, you weren’t a drunk. Thus, bars. Lots and lots of bars. ([Location 156](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FCKEX6&location=156)) - One old bourbon drinker told me that a man’s life is all a matter of mountains and caves—mountains we must climb, caves where we hide when we can’t face our mountains. ([Location 200](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FCKEX6&location=200))