“To alcohol! The cause of… and solution to… all of life's problems”
Matt Groening (1954) American cartoonist
“She was an alcoholic. I didn't blame myself for that. The worst problem in the life of any alcoholic is alcohol.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, book Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus (1990)
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