Famous literary drunks and addicts

by Peter CulshawSaturday, 06 February 2010

Life magazine has a terrific photographic portfolio up on its site of famous drunks and substance abusers - with quotes - including Dorothy Parker: "One more drink and I'll be under the host", Jack Kerouac: "I'm a Catholic and and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death" and Charles Baudelaire: "Always be drunk... get drunk militantly" and other literary types knocking back the booze including Ernest Hemingway, Dylan Thomas and Tennessee Williams. Link here.

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