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"The second whiskey is always my favorite. From the third on, it no longer has any taste. It's just something to pour into your stomach."
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
Writing
"You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been."
Self
"It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye."
Social
"One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually happy to be told what to do. They might complain, but that's not how they really feel. They just grumble out of habit. If you told them to think for themselves, and make their own decisions and take responsibility for them, they'd be clueless."
Responsibility
"I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots."
Truth
"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."
Fear
"There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up."
Relationship
"He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further."
Technology
"There are symbolic dreams-dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities-realities that symbolize a dream."
Philosophy
"In any case, though, I believe that I have not been fair to you and that, as a result, I must have led you around in circles and hurt you deeply."
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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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"He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses."
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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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"I wait on my fix:I am a poetry junkie."
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"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 second whiskey is always my favorite. From the third on, it no longer has any taste. It's just something to pour into your stomach."
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"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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"It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is the worst of all."
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"My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness."
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"Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke."
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