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“Addiction is a bargain with the cosmos: only stay time, and I'll remain in this holding pattern, too. The uncrossable gap between now and the past is given tangible form and conquered, daily, in th...”
“My nose bleeds, and every comedown feels like an overdose. I try to make peace with God each time, but he shows no interest, and it reminds me of my dad, and I get so upset that I just have to do a...”
“Smoking is suicide by instalments.”
“I smoked my first pipe with Seth. I knew the stuff was bad, but I was so tired of being the cop, begging and ragging at him, throwing Pampers in his face when he walked in the door. I wanted to be ...”
“The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant.”
“NANCY LAYNE McCALLUM: An addict and a non-addict dont think the same their brains are wired completely differently. Only an addict can help another addict through recovery.”
“MARK ARM : Even if I did talk to [Layne Staley], I dont know what I would have said. Seeing him so far down the line on this trajectory that he had set for himself made me queasy. It seemed to me l...”
“There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.”
“Hello, my name is Jaako and I am an addict. I am addicted to reading.”
“John G. turns on him, hands on hips, hair caked with snow. 'Hey, buddy, let me tell you something. Drugs are the only thing I got. I am a drug addict. That's all I've ever been and that's all I'll ...”
“The next day we were all shooting up. "Jeez. Look at the size of the cotton he just threw in the spoon." "Yea. What are you trying to prove?" They had a good laugh at my expense.”
“Overeating is the addiction of choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. It's a way of fucking yourself up while still remaining fully f...”
“As I was fixing in the bathroom, I thought about how I used to tell my ex Anne that there was no reality. Light merely entered the eye and was translated into electrical signals which were translat...”
“The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You've read me this far, then? Even this far? For what discredi...”
“I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?”
“Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequen...”
“Passion creates, addiction consumes.”
“Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on the fruitless mission of filling the gaping hole within us with material things. Bl...”
“Instead of being a gift that separates us from the animals, free will has become my gaoler. Junkies are the ultimate outsider, not only are we outside of society: we are outside of nature. I spit, ...”
“Your lowest moment and life can be your best if you survive it and learn from it”
