“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
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Ernest Hemingway501
American author and journalist 1899–1961Related quotes
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“Nor could the foole abstaine,
But drunke as often.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) English dramatist, poet, and translator
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Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Quote in Vincent's letter to brother Theo, from Arles, Sept. 1888; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 542), p. 39 <br class="br">1880s, 1888