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NOVELISTS > essayist, novelist, journalist, poet > G K Chesterton
Most Americans are...
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Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. . . . Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything. . .
Source: New York Times (28 June 1931).
-- G K Chesterton, (May 29 1874-1936), English essayist, novelist, journalist, poet; He is noted for the detective series with sleuth Father Brown.