LIFE Magazine portraits of literary boozers and druggies (via Boingboing.net)
"Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now." Photo of Charles Bukowski by Joan Gannij.
LIFE magazine posted a gallery of striking photos of "Famous Literary Drunks & Addicts," including William S. Burroughs, Louisa May Alcott, Jack London, Anne Sexton, and more than two dozen others. ...