There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.
Malachy McCourtDo whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.
Malachy McCourtWhen an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.
Malachy McCourt