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"I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction."
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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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"But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn."
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"You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town."
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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 was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care."
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"I guess my biggest problem is that I find it easier to relapse than to carry through."
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"I wait on my fix:I am a poetry junkie."
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"He only drinks when he gets depressed,' said Carrot. 'Why does he get depressed?' 'Sometimes it's because he hasn't had a drink."
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"I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him."
Home
"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."
Career
"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
Father
"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."
Birthday
"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."
Interest
"Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish."
Life
"Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not."
People
"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."
Houses
"I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be."
Excuse
"The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title."
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