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"I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn't taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers' sword and made me feel powerful and godlike."
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"If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer."
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"At the end of almost every AA meeting, someone read the Promises. One of these was 'We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it'. Dan thought he would always regret the past, but he had quit trying to shut the door. Why bother, when it would just come open again? The fucking had no latch, let alone a lock."
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"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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"But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn."
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Personal Development
"You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town."
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"Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction."
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"I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction."
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"Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff."
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"With endless pharmacological supplies at our fingertips, we do not need to penetrate the motives behind our actions, feelings, transgressions, dreams, and phobias. High on chemical substances we can remain stagnated in an infantile mental state. Without introspection, we foreclose ourselves from gaining the insight that allows us to navigate adulthood's ceaseless demands."
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"I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night."
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"But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion."
Time
"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call."
Humor
"Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both."
Relationship
"Widow. The word consumes itself."
Relationship
"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
Creativity
"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
Health
"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."
Hope
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."
Life
"The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it."
Creativity
"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."
Writing
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