Drug Quotes - Page 19

• I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.

  Keith Richards

  Problem, Policemen

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• I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain remote African tribes there'd be some incredible four day rites of passage ceremony involving tattooing and potent hallucinogenic drugs extracted from tree-frogs, and village elders smearing my body with monkey blood, but here,rites of passage is all about three new pairs of pants and stuffing your duvet in a bin-liner.

  David Nicholls

  Believe, Independent, African Tribes

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.25, Villard

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• While looking at a website for liposuction, I learned that it was a six-to eight-week recovery period, the clincher being that, during that time, I would under no circumstances be able to use street drugs. Obviously I had to think of a more realistic approach.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Recovery, Humor

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.

  Stephen King

  Powerful, World, Want

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an area associated with rewarding stimuli that tends to be active in drug abusers. Or, to recap: the brain of a person in love doesn't look like the brain of someone overcome by deep emotion. It looks like the brain of a person who's been snorting coke.

  Jodi Picoult

  Feelings, Brain, Overcoming

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

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• [T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.

  Jay-Z

  Medical Problems, Addiction, Suffering

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.51, Random House Group

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• Kurt Cobain OD'd on heroin before committing suicide, but he also OD'd on fame. Cobain was like Basquiat: They both wanted to be famous, and were brilliant enough to make it happen. But then what? Drug addicts kill themselves trying to get that feeling they got from their first high, looking for an experience they'll never get again. In his suicide note, Cobain asked himself, "Why don't you just enjoy it?" and then answered, "I don't know!" It's amazing how much of a mindfuck success can be.

  Jay-Z

  Suicide, Feelings, Trying

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.117, Random House Group

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• We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Las Vegas, Sky, Top Down

  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas pt. 1 (1971)

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• Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.

  Mitch Albom

  Xanax, Sadness, Our World

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• I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. “Killing is wrong.” “We kill chickens,” Mr. Wexler said. “We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers.” It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than drug dealers.

  Janet Evanovich

  Tree, Cows, Arguing

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires in me. I want to dance. I want drugs. I want to know perverse people, to be intimate with them. I never look at naive faces. I want to bite into life, and to be torn by it.

  Anais Nin

  Beautiful, Men, People

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• Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers knew how to kill people, and no disciple would have been fooled by a half-drugged, beat-up Jesus into thinking he'd defeated death and inaugurated the kingdom.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Thinking, Roman Soldiers

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• It doesn't matter how many drugs I take, I'm not fulfilled. This isn't satisfying. There's a spiritual hunger going on. Everybody feels it. If you don't feel it now, you will. Trust me. You will... Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's the real rebellion.

  Alice Cooper

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

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• Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Couple, Years, Wife

  Kurt Vonnegut (1987). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, New York : Delacorte Press

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• Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Helping Others, People, Cures

  Penelope Fitzgerald (2013). “Human Voices”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do I realy regret that night? That one moment of joy beyond compare – some people never experience it in a lifetime. But the downside to that taste of pure happiness is that,like a drug, a glimmer of paradise, it leaves you craving more.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Regret, Night, People

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the drug worked. It wasn't just a prop or an affectation. It was a tool for mental health.

  Sylvia Brownrigg

  Nerves, Tools, Firsts

  Sylvia Brownrigg (2011). “Pages for You”, p.242, Pan Macmillan

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• You are a drug dealer. To tiny faeries. Shame." Sanya to Dresden

  Jim Butcher

  Tiny, Shame, Dresden

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• Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, "Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.

  Rachel Caine

  Noses, Franklin, Ghost Town

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.113, Allison & Busby

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• The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Reality, Would Be, Brutal

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• You've got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it's unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it'll be a cyanide capsule.

  David Nicholls

  One Day, Mouths, Cyanide

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• The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and diet—medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in critical cases there is no time to wait for the slow processes of dietetics, so it must be either medicines or nothing. Nevertheless, drugs are no substitute for right diet and wholesome regime, and although magic enables a speedy and potent result to be attained, is is only by means of right understanding and right ethics that the position which has been won can be held.

  Dion Fortune

  Mean, Medicine, Differences

  Dion Fortune (2016). “The training and work of an initiate”, p.45, Dion Fortune

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• Sure. You get all slutty with Rafe. You freak out. You cry date rape drug.' - Hayley

  Kelley Armstrong

  Freak, Cry

  Kelley Armstrong (2014). “Darkness Rising Trilogy, 3-book bundle: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising”, p.100, Penguin

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• I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Relationship, Girlfriend, House

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.604, Scholastic Inc.

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• When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in New Orleans. But the drugs, well, that was a different story altogether, because drugs are every bit as illegal in New Orleans as anywhere else--at least, if you're black and poor, and have the misfortune of doing your drugs somewhere other than the dorms at Tulane University. But if you are lucky enough to be living at Tulane, which is a pretty white place, especially contrasted with the city where it's located, which is 65 percent black, then you are absolutely set.

  Tim Wise

  Drinking, College, Cities

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