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“I believe that a person's thoughts often manifest into actual events - that we think things into existence. Right? Well, think about this: one of the illnesses that has become an epidemic in the We...”
“Temptation can sway even the purest mind to sin, and the denialist to claim that tomorrow will bring change. However, the irrefutable truth istomorrow, my friend, never comes.”
“And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or women. He aint going to have time to quit.”
“I had this great idea: I should get a job. Freelancing came with freedom, but maybe what I required was a cage.”
“Idolatry is always subject to the law of diminishing returns.”
“But I know that in my heart of hearts that drinking is about as good an escape as an innocent game of suicide skiing, so I know also that David's complete obsession with video games of this type, o...”
“This year he'd been caught up in a whirlwind called Jaenelle Angelline-as impossible to deflect as she was to stop-and he had become an accomplice in all sorts of schemes that, even in their innoce...”
“As often is the case with addictions, the fanciful notion of a gradual discontinuance only provided a comforting pretext for more sustained indulgence.”
“Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.”
“We, as a society, have arbitrarily differentiated between acceptable and unacceptable drug addictions.”
“A selfie is a proof that either we are very lonely or too self absorbed to ask others to take our picture.”
“I, the unfortunate Doctor Polyakov, who became addicted to morphine in February of this year, warn anyone who may suffer the same fate not to attempt to replace morphine with cocaine. Cocaine is a ...”
“Always she had sounded sympathetic, always she had appeared to understand. But inside there was a bit of her that said that they couldn't have tried hard enough. If Celia had a daughter who was des...”
“Lhyn watched her with a smile. You do realize thats your fourth cup and its not even midmeal. Shouldnt you be starting a bit lower than full addict level? I am a full addict; whats the use in prete...”
“Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the word 'new' lose it's luster? Now the past is supposed to hold the hopes we onc...”
“Life is an addiction Wind to feel ,Love to crave ,Power to have ,Cigarette's to smoke.”
“Dependence on drugs is not a disease, it is not a virus, it is not something that stalks only the dregs of society. Drug addiction is REALIZED EMOTIONAL DEFICIENCY SYNDROME.”
“As the uneasiness and... reluctance to face [his problems] cut him off more and more from all real happiness... habit renders the pleasures of vanity and excitement and flippancy at once less pleas...”
“Most people are dependent on legal drugs but this is somehow not an obstacle to seeing an enemy in every underground addict.”
“For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up.”
