“To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.”

As quoted in A Contemporary Reader: essays for today and tomorrow, Harry William Rudman, Irving Rosenthal, Ronald Press (1961), p. 334
Context: As regards drink, I can only say that in Dublin during the Depression when I was growing up, drunkenness was not regarded as a social disgrace. To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

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Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright 1923–1964

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