"Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now."

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Habeeb Akande, British Historian

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"There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

Addiction, Liquor, Suffering, Pain, Misery

"I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Addiction, Humanity, Destruction, Fear

"Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Addiction, Power, Regret, Truth, Inspirational

"Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components - anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain - wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain."

Chris Prentiss, American Author

Addiction, Mind, Body, Healing, Emotion

"How do you think your body and mind would respond if you were surrounded by psychologists, psychiatrists, or drug and alcohol counselors who subscribed to the belief that 'once an alcoholic or addict, always an alcoholic or addict' and who believed that your current stay in rehab would be one of many?"

Chris Prentiss, American Author

Addiction, Perception, Healing, Mindset

"Who ever thought to put the word "hero" in heroin?"

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Addiction, Irony, Language, Drugs

"With addiction, a client's fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that grand banana -the fear of Fear itself."

Geoffrey Wood, American Author

Addiction, Fear, Mind, Struggle

"We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use of headache remedies, it will never work until the condition causing people's headache pain is healed."

Chris Prentiss, American Author

Addiction, War, Society, Behavior

"I don't ever drink alone. It's not much fun. And I don't think I will until I am an alcoholic."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"The world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem."

Nature

"All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it."

Love

"(The whole world is at the throat of the world, everybody feels angry, short-changed, cheated, everybody is despondent, disillusioned). I welcomed shots of peace, tattered shards of happiness."

Society

"The flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much and nobody finds the one but keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh."

Desire

"Nothing's news.it's the same old thing indisguise.only one thing comes without adisguise and you only see itonce, ormaybe never.like getting hit by a freighttrain.makes us realize that all ourmoaning about long lost girlsin gingham dressesis not so importantafterall."

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"My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure."

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"It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy."

"There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief."

"I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics."

"Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all."

"Who ever thought to put the word "hero" in heroin?"

"With addiction, a client's fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that grand banana -the fear of Fear itself."

"We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use of headache remedies, it will never work until the condition causing people's headache pain is healed."

"I don't ever drink alone. It's not much fun. And I don't think I will until I am an alcoholic."

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"The ass is the face of the soul of sex."

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"Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it."

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"The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care."

"All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it."

"(The whole world is at the throat of the world, everybody feels angry, short-changed, cheated, everybody is despondent, disillusioned). I welcomed shots of peace, tattered shards of happiness."

"The flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much and nobody finds the one but keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh."

"Nothing's news.it's the same old thing indisguise.only one thing comes without adisguise and you only see itonce, ormaybe never.like getting hit by a freighttrain.makes us realize that all ourmoaning about long lost girlsin gingham dressesis not so importantafterall."

"My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure."