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"All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation."
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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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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
Love
"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
Want
"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."
Relationship
"If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away."
Time
"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
Age
"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."
Talent
"In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them."
Writing
"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."
Friendship
"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
People
"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
Love
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