There has never been any art or literature without drink and there never will be.... Unless something is done about the matter [prohibition] this country is going to the dogs. There has been no development in our art or literature for 30 or 40 years.

Joseph Pennell
About This Quote

This quote is from a letter written by the American writer and war correspondent, Ernest Hemingway. In it, Hemingway comments on the harmful effects of alcohol prohibition. Prohibition had been passed in the United States in 1920 and would be repealed in 1933. During this time, Americans were forced to drink other people’s products and many other forms of entertainment were also made illegal. As a result, the country suffered economically and culturally.

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