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June 1960

AA Philosophy and the Creative Artist

Can an alcoholic get too much AA? A noted novelist says yes--and tells you why he thinks so

ANY ITEM that refers to alcohol is of immediate interest to the alcoholic. In exploring the harsh story of what alcohol has done to American artists and writers of the present century--to Sinclair Lewis, O. Henry, Hart Crane, Edna St. Vincent Millay--(there are about thirty who were seriously knocked around by drink, and seven or eight killed by it)--I have run into what I believe is the saddest sentence ever written in our language. Here it is:

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