Ocupation: Novelist
Life: July 23, 1888 - March 26, 1959
Birthday: July 23
Death: March 26
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.
source: Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.169, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
topic: Real, Drinking, Men, Alcoholism, Alcohol Addiction, Alcohol And Life, Alcoholism Funny