| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 18013 |
| QUOTATION: | Alcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn’t comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Marguerite Duras (b. 1914), French author. “Alcohol,” Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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