… I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?… The only time it isn’t good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always helps you shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief…
Ernerst Hemingway
…Drink is an escape.That is why so many people do it now There is Weltschmerz- the uncertainty of the world today. All sensitive minds feel it. There is a passing away of the old order and we wonder what there will be for us in the new- if anything…
F. Scott Fitzgerald
