Addict Quotes
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In the 1980s, when people were just beginning to talk about AIDS, there were just a few categories of those who were at high risk: homosexuals, hemophiliacs, heroin addicts, and Haitians. We were the only ones identified by nationality.
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The point is, this is what happens when advertising and data collection is the dominant business mode. We are encouraged to be compulsive. It's not that we're terrible addicts who need to go to an AA meeting and get off our gadgets.
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An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.
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At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There is no similar relief for parents or children or husbands or wives or others who love them.
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Nobody is born a drug addict or a homosexual. Christians may be performing in these unacceptable ways, but that's not who they are. It's an identity issue.
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What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm throwing up." Wow. She sounds just like my dad! "I'm only an alcoholic when I get drunk." There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. Penelope gorges on her pain and then throws it up and flushes it away. My dad drinks his pain away.
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The worst thing that could have happened to me as an addict was having money.
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Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
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If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.
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I'm a sex addict. It's my cross to bear. It's a real disease with doctors and medicine and everything!
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I don't like people who take drugs... Customs men for example.
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I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.
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It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.
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I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.
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I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great.
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There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.