“An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.”
Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer
“A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.”
— Raymond Chandler, book The Long Goodbye
Source: The Long Goodbye
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