“Secretly, Miss Finch, I’m not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, ever, understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live.”
– Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 20. Dolphus Raymond confides his secret to Scout. A white man shunned by the white community for living with a black woman, he pretends to be drunk so people can feel more comfortable with his unpopular choices.