"I got . I had to stop drinking and reorganize my whole life schedule, and that's probably the greatest blessing in my life. I stopped drinking on Aug. 11, 1982, at 20 minutes past 11. I finished two bottles of Chateau Margeaux '54, looked at my watch and said, "That's my last drink," and it was. I'd had enough anyway. I think you could probably float the on the amount I've drunk."
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, as quoted in "Richard Harris: an aging rebel returns to Camelot" by Matt Damasker, The Ottawa Citizen (November 13, 1986), p. D15.
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