“I don’t really know that liquor will cure all the ills in our society. But two or three slugs often cure our curious inability to know each other. Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.”
—Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run?; the novel holds up pretty well but has weak points. You could compare this quote to Barbara Holland’s The Joy of Drinking.
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