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"Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs."

"I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens."

"I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs."

"I don't have to say 'Rap it up' every two seconds, or 'Don't do drugs' every two seconds. They know they're not supposed to use drugs, and they know they're supposed to put a condom on."

"In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use."

"I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band."
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"Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother."

"The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage."

"The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American."

"Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic."

"The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them."

"People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it."

"When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody."

"My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on."
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