“…in New York at the end of the day I play ostrich. I take a glass of beer or wine or a pill and go to sleep to have energy for the next day.”
Anaïs Nin
more infosource: The Diary of Anaïs Nin (Vol 7, 1966–1974) (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), p53.
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category: alcohol, city living, coping mechanism, drug, escape, New York City, ostrich
medium: diary
notes: from a winter 1967–1968 entry in Nin's diary
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