“Inevitably, I drank too much, talked too much, smiled too hard, swallowed back too much bile.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.”
— John Steinbeck, book The Grapes of Wrath
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
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