Strong Drink

When you go apartment-hunting

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When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New York you encounter paranoids who wonder if you will commit suicide–not that they care; what they worry about is blood on their fresh paint, a dubious smell in the hallway, or a hole … Read more

Strong drink stupefies a

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Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the pleasure of this state is increased by the low level of civilization and the narrow empty life to which these men are confined. Alexander Herzen