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"It isn't drugs addicts have to give up. It's misery."
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Personal Development
"What is addiction? Only those that have been kept secret, are addictions. Those that are openly visible cannot be called addiction."
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Personal Development
"Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix."
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Personal Development
"It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is the worst of all."
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Personal Development
"You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town."
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Personal Development
"Your personal will is the web your disease sits and spins in. The will you call your own ceased to be yours as of who knows how many Substance-drenched years ago."
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Personal Development
"The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers - common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons."
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Personal Development
"He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses."
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Personal Development
"Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things."
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Personal Development
"I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is just as stupid as saying, "You could grow eyes in the back of your head if you really wanted to."
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"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."
Travel
"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him."
Sense
"You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal."
Quality
"How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity."
Politics
"In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality."
Emotional
"Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?"
Lifestyle
"Like all pure creatures, cats are practical."
Animals
"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has."
Business
"The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values."
Education
"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing."
Love
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