Barry Hannah Quotes
The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.
Bourgeois, Louis. "Barry Hannah, The Art of Fiction No. 184." The Paris Review, no. 172, Winter 2004, pp. 44-78.
At the time, the traders were mostly French who traded all kinds of goods and especially alcohol—usually rum—for fur animal pelts. Many of the Indians were partial to the French and French oriented traders who did not covet their land and would provide the Indians with alcohol and guns, lead and powder while English traders sometimes tried to restrict these items. Many tribes of American Indians are genetically very susceptible to alcohol—both in terms of immediate impairment—getting drunk and in developing a dependency on having alcohol—addiction or alcoholism.
The prime minister was known to have had a serious problem with alcoholism.
The great poet was trying to get a job with the BBC and Nicholson was to be his boss.
She was a baroness—a member of the aristocracy who was a social reformer
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. The Congressmen who voted for Prohibition in the next century had not read or believed this quotation of Twain’s.
One of the commonalities between Lincoln and Washington were there experience in seeing alcohol cause the death and/or ruination of many. See {630833}.
Barry Hannah was an American novelist and short story writer from Mississippi. Hannah was born in Meridian, Mississippi, on April 23, 1942, and grew up in Clinton, Mississippi. He wrote eight novels and five short story collections.
