"Days of Wine and Roses" by Ernest Dowson (poetry reading)
It's not actually called "Days of Wine and Roses" but people remember that quotation. The title is a quotation from Horace and it means "The brevity of life stops us from having long plans".
The most persuasive argument for drinking in literature might be The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, for instance,
"I often wonder what the vintner's buy
One half so precious as the goods they sell".
Then there's Baudelaire "You have to be always drunk...it's the only way...you have to be continually drunk".
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