Drug Quotes - Page 20

• Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.

  Lynda Barry

  Blame, Dear

  “McSweeney’s Internet Tendency’s John Warner on the funniest book narrators” by Noah Cruickshank, www.avclub.com. March 4, 2014.

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• A new life? There’s not such thing. It was only in the magazine headlines that people got a new life. Stopped drinking or taking drugs, found a new love. But the same life.

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Drinking, People, New Life

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• It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Crush, Girl, Running

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• She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.

  Ann Brashares

  Weakness, Toxic, Worst

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• I love you' really is the gateway drug of breaking up.

  John Green

  Love You, Gateways

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.64, Penguin

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• He closed his eyes. “I’m so tired, Tess,” he said. “I only wanted pleasant dreams for once.” “That is not the way to get them, Will,” she said softly. “You cannot buy or drug or dream your way out of pain.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dream, Pain, Tired

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.642, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Want

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• I've done everything. All of it. You think it, I've done it. All the things you never dared, all the things you dream about, all the things you were curious about and then forgot because you knew you never would. I did 'em, I did 'em yesterday while you were still in bed. What about you? When's it gonna be your turn?

  Melvin Burgess

  Dream, Thinking, Yesterday

  Melvin Burgess (2010). “Smack”, p.167, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.

  John Green

  Couple, Team, Missing

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.107, Penguin

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• but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.

  Rachel Caine

  Optimism, Sometimes, Effects

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Windfall”, p.173, Allison & Busby

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• I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions.

  Charles Bukowski

  Funny, Powerful, Mean

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• And I'm sure than in Poland, or somewhere, it is considered cool to drive a Porsche and wear necklaces and black silk, but at least back in Brooklyn if you did those things you were either a drug dealer or from New Jersey.

  Meg Cabot

  Black, Brooklyn, Necklaces

  Meg Cabot (2009). “High Stakes”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.

  Anais Nin

  Creativity, Reality, Synthesis

  "The Novel of the Future". Book by Anais Nin, 1969.

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• Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.

  Mindy Kaling

  Writing, Heart, People

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.142, Crown/Archetype

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• ...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Ambition, Soul

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.4

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• No. This has to do with drugs." My jaw fell open and I almost lost my toothbrush. "You're on drugs?" She pressed her mouth together. "No. You are." "I'm on drugs?" I asked, stunned. I had no idea.

  Darynda Jones

  Ideas, Together, Mouths

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• Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.

  Paul McCartney

  Children, Adults, Animation

  "Analysis: Predictable Golden Globes Honor 'Avatar'" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. January 18, 2010.

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• Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

  Hope Mirrlees

  Giving, Poppies, Relief

  Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.53, F+W Media, Inc.

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• Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.

  Ned Vizzini

  Thinking, People, Drunk

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• You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

  William S. Burroughs

  Funny, Doctors, Needs

  William S. Burroughs (2012). “Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk"”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Fun, People, Addiction

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• I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, it's not the friend, it's not the bad influence, it's not the childhood.

  Anthony Kiedis

  People, Childhood, Blame

  "Scar Tissue". Book by Anthony Kiedis and Larry Sloman, 2004.

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• The only way to make sure that the Hand didn't get to you would have been to kill your brother. I could've done it, but I didn't. I just gave him some drugs." "You gave an addict in rehab drugs, and you want credit for it?" "Of course it sounds bad when you put it that way.

  Ilona Andrews

  Brother, Hands, Sound

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Fate's Edge”, p.133, NYLA

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• Any drug can be used successfully, no matter how bad it's reputation, and any drug can be abused, no matter how accepted it is. There are no good or bad rugs; there are only good and bad relationships with drugs.

  Andrew Weil

  Bad Relationship, Matter, Reputation

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• It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only thing I look forward to. This afternoon I read what I wrote... And it seemed vivid. I know it seems vivid because my imagination fills in all the bits another person wouldn't understand. I mean, it's vanity. But it seems a sort of magic... And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did

  John Fowles

  Writing, Mean, Sleep

  John Fowles (2010). “The Collector”, p.165, Random House

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