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Pinstripe Perfect

May 2004
By: Dwayne S. | Carmel, Indiana
The rise and fall of a hard-drinking, fast-talking Wall Street exec

The Real Thing

February 2001

A Twentieth Century Miracle

November 1960
By: Alfred E. Dowd, Warden | Michigan City, Indiana

Grapevine Daily Quote May 11, 2019

“The AA program does not recognize walls. It is immune to the conditions which break down an individual relationship, the difference in social levels, of intellect, of experience. AA takes no heed of this. It has one primary law, help your fellow man and do it by example rather than by instruction.”

“Prisoner AA,” Washington State Penitentiary, February 1955, AA Grapevine
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Quote May 11, 2017

“The AA program does not recognize walls. It is immune to the conditions which break down an individual relationship, the difference in social levels, of intellect, of experience. AA takes no heed of this. It has one primary law, help your fellow man and do it by example rather than by instruction.”

Washington State Penitentiary, February 1955 “Prisoner AA,” AA Grapevine
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Sobriety Rocks!

March 1998

Grapevine Daily Quote November 20

“‘Historians may one day point to Alcoholics Anonymous as a society which did far more than achieve a considerable measure of success with alcoholism and its stigma; they may recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a new instrument for social action, a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering, one having vast potential for the myriad other ills of mankind.’”

From The Lasker Award, presented to AA in 1951, AA Co-Founder, Bill W., January 1952, “The Vision of Tomorrow,”, The Language of the Heart
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Grapevine Daily Quote November 19

“‘Historians may one day point to Alcoholics Anonymous as a society which did far more than achieve a considerable measure of success with alcoholism and its stigma; they may recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a new instrument for social action, a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering, one having vast potential for the myriad other ills of mankind.’”

From The Lasker Award, presented to AA in 1951, AA Co-Founder, Bill W., January 1952, “The Vision of Tomorrow,” The Language of the Heart
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The Last Straw

April 2004
By: DeWitt T. | Douglasville, Georgia

Grapevine Daily Quote July 11, 2019

“It should be the privilege, even the right, of each individual or group to handle anonymity as they wish ... Each individual will have to decide where he ought to draw the line -- how far he ought to carry the principle in his own affairs, how far he may go in dropping his own anonymity without injury to Alcoholics Anonymous as a whole.”

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., January 1946, “A Tradition Born of Our Anonymity”, The Language of the Heart 
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Quote July 11, 2017

“It should be the privilege, even the right, of each individual or group to handle anonymity as they wish ... Each individual will have to decide where he ought to draw the line -- how far he ought to carry the principle in his own affairs, how far he may go in dropping his own anonymity without injury to Alcoholics Anonymous as a whole.”

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., January 1946 “A Tradition Born of Our Anonymity," The Language of the Heart
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Quote July 11, 2014

“It should be the privilege, even the right, of each individual or group to handle anonymity as they wish ... Each individual will have to decide where he ought to draw the line -- how far he ought to carry the principle in his own affairs, how far he may go in dropping his own anonymity without injury to Alcoholics Anonymous as a whole.”

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., January 1946 “A Tradition Born of Our Anonymity” The Language of the Heart

Talking to Air

September 2024 | Young and Sober
By: Jay M. | Carlsba, California
Grief, resentment and liquor soured him with God, but a new perspective on prayer changed his mind

A Small Window of Grace

Web Exclusives | Grapevine Online Exclusives
By: Garth W. | New York, N.Y.
He had a brief moment, lying in the hospital room, when he was able to face the truth about his drinking. That was the beginning

Fork in the road

September 2022 | Young & Sober
By: Gina C. | Hamburg, N.J.
Young and confused, she identified in meetings, but couldn’t face a life without drinking. Would she stay?
It was decision time

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Keep Coming

March 1980
By: J. D. | Queens, New York

Bill's Wife Remembers When

November 1976
By: Lois W.
Coping with brawls and kooky behavior was part of keeping house for the early AA members - From the December 1944 Grapevine

Condemned to Live an Underground Life

July 1976
By: S. B. | San Francisco, California
Rejected as an untrustworthy drunk, he was

Cinderella Has a Ball!

April 1970
By: E. P. | Hamburg, New York
But like so many of us, she hated herself in the morning

Home Alone

When he finally stopped drinking, he could rejoin the world outside

Fitting In

Alcohol helped him to have a more fluid social life until it ruined his entire life

Sober Kick for Jazzmen

September 1966
By: Fred. W. | New York, New York

Unbeliever in AA

July 1966
By: L. W. | Manhattan, New York
. . .God as we understand Him

Slogans

February 1964
By: M. S. | Harrison, New York
Passé? Cliché? Cornball? War Cry?

Twelfth Step Encounter

December 1961
By: C. C. A. | Cincinnati, Ohio
An adventure of twenty years ago

The Periodical Souse, the Never-again Feeling and the Ride on the Sprinkling Cart

August 1961
George Ade, one of America's great humorists, wrote this Fable in Slang sixty years ago, but the subject is as timeless as man and alcohol. You will undoubtedly recognize . . .

How to Act at a Party

June 1960
Not even your glassy-eyed hostess cares when you tell her that you and Gin Barleycorn aren't on speaking terms

Closed Meeting

June 1956
WHAT IS A MORAL INVENTORY?

Twelve Steps and the Older Member

June 1955
By: J.E. | Bronxville, New York
Step Six: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character

A Victim of Circumstances

August 1954
By: S. L. K. | Southern Minnesota
There were days in my life that were total blanks. . .

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