"I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction."

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"I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction."

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"Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding.Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

Addiction, Transformation, Awareness, Recovery

"It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating from the sidewalk, afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder practically to the point of spasticity and cerebral palsy-pills were the key to being not only competent, but high-functioning."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

Addiction, Trauma, Reality, Survival

"I don't spot junk neighbourhoods by the way they look, but by the feel, somewhat the same process by which a dowser locates hidden water. I am walking along and suddenly the junk in my cells moves and twitches like the dowsers wand: 'Junk here!"

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

Addiction, Observation, Perception, Environment

"It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you. I can't really understand addictions to drugs or alcohol. Things that control you. But an eating disorder is an addiction you control. Wait, is that paradoxical? I prefer to believe not."

Ellen Hopkins, American Novelist

Addiction, Paradox, Control, Disorder

"There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

Addiction, Pain, Coping, Humanity

"I have a very addictive personality. If it isn't women, it's money. If it isn't money, it's speeding. And if it isn't speeding, it's women. I also like expensive video consoles where I can punch, kick, screw, shoot and drive legally all night anywhere I fucking well want to."

Carla H. Krueger, American Author

Addiction, Desire, Excess, Confession

"The only reason i Fall in love with cigarette.each one take 2 minutes of my life and i love this."

Mohammed Zaki Ansari, Indian Writer

Addiction, Time, Habit, Desire

"It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there's something about opium that goes very well with lesbianism."

Alan Moore, British Writer

Addiction, Vice, Sexuality, Irony

"It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about."

Keith Richards, English Musician

Addiction,

"He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Addiction, Drink, Control, Choice

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