He’d be a ruin by now, both physically and mentally. Physic… - Joseph Brodsky

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He’d be a ruin by now, both physically and mentally. Physically because of the bottle. . . . Mentally because of that mixture of impotence and cynicism that corrodes everyone there — the stronger you are the worse it is.

Joseph Brodsky

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Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский, usually anglicized as Joseph Brodsky) (24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian-American poet, winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature, and Poet Laureate of the United States for 1991–1992.

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Native Name: Ио́сиф Бро́дский

Alternative Names: Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky • Иосиф Александрович Бродский

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