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“Why then do we wonder that heroin is everywhere? In our isolation, heroin thrives; that's its natural habitat. And our very search for painlessness led us to it. Heroin is, I believe, the final exp...”
“My daughter, Carly, has been in and out of drug treatment facilities since she was thirteen. Every time she goes away, I have a routine: I go through her room and search for drugs she may have left...”
“In the soft light of morning, the sky outside turning light blue, my answer is always and still: Im fine.”
“here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket; portabl...”
“If the last to know hes an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.”
“My slurred speech isnt from one or nine drinks too many, its from my father.”
“Oh and P.S.? I am in dire need of more coffee. Industrial strength.""But we're going to sleep soon," I say."I know." Laila shudders. "Addiction is a bitch.”
“Jealousy in any form will cloud thinking and form bad habits. Jealousy is an addiction.”
“Hey, I stopped smoking cigarettes. Isn't that something? I'm on to cigars now. I'm on to a five-year plan. I eliminated cigarettes, then I go to cigars, then I go to pipes, then I go to chewing tob...”
“But Tilo had crept up on him, and become a kind of compulsion, an addiction almost. Addiction has its own mnemonics skin, smell, the length of the loved ones fingers. In Tilos case it was the slan...”
“I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes. ”
“Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.”
“Too much of a good thing is toxic”
“...introduced Doc to the miracle of morphine. From that very first shot it was as if he'd discovered the one vital ingredient that God had left out when He'd sent Doc kicking and screaming into the...”
“Desire is alcoholic, desire is the greatest drug possible. Marijuana is nothing, lsd is nothing. Desire is the greatest lsd possible the ultimate in drugs.What is the nature of desire? When you de...”
“Someone put opera on inside the house. Someone changed it to hip-hop, thank God. Someone started a shower. Someone vacuumed. Again.Life. In all its mundane majesty.And you couldn't take advantage o...”
“An alcoholic is someone who can violate his standards faster than he can lower them.”
“This could be addictive.”
“The first few days felt quite surreal for gone was that filtered world of perfect angles made up of peoples best moments and selves. Gone was the wormhole that one jumped into at the sign of any aw...”
“My blood makes noise. And Im saying this now, because I have a strange gut feeling that it will be silenced someday soon.”
