Heroin Addiction Quotes

• I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.

  William S. Burroughs

  Taken, Years, Clothes

  "Naked Lunch". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1959.

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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.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Reality, Addiction, Needs

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• It did not feel like something that was going to take over my life and destroy it. It felt like a subtle flower instead of a manipulative demon. That's the mystery of heroin.

  Corey Feldman

  Flower, Mystery, Demon

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Taken, Fate, Knowing

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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• Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

  William S. Burroughs

  Recovery, Addiction, Alcohol

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• The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

  Nick Hornby

  Needs, Dramatic, Being Human

  "How does it feel to be a woman? First, the Good News..." by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2001.

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• Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.

  James N. Frey

  Writing, Addiction, Heroin

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• [On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

  Ray Charles

  Addiction, Black, Blind

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• The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone

  Nick Hornby

  Dramatic, Being Human, Enough

  "How does it feel to be a woman? First, the Good News". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2001.

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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. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help they have no hope.

  Russell Brand

  Drinking, Addiction, Alcohol

  "My life without drugs" by Russell Brand, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.

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• Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

  Stephen King

  Children, Play, Childhood

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• Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.

  Russell Brand

  Sexy, Recovery, Vegetarianism

  FaceBook post by Russell Brand from May 11, 2012

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• As you feel increasingly comfortable around your friends, I think it's more than fine to share the basic details of your heroin addiction with them. If they seem receptive, you can feel free to talk about it in further detail; if they seem judgmental or uncomfortable, you can move on to other topics.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Moving, Thinking, Addiction

  "Telltale Hurt". Live chat, www.slate.com. February 1, 2016.

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• The Easter Bunny is a major reason for heroin addiction in America.

  John Waters

  Easter, America, Addiction

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• How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included emergency admissions and overdoses; these White people in the suburbs were doing heroin like it was going out of style. I counted the words: the article consisted of 200 words. "Heroin Epidemic" in the back section. Out here in California, the typical drug addict is a housewife or suburban White woman.

  Ishmael Reed

  New York, Epidemics, California

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.

  Irvine Welsh

  Vegetarianism, Addiction, Links

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• Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it’s bad, you’ve never been so miserable, but when it’s good you’ve never been so high.

  Dan Savage

  Kids, Addiction, Littles

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• Now I understand what exhaustion is. It’s not just a code word for heroin addiction. People don’t teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it’s something I’d never had to handle, because I’d been rejected for so long.

  Felicia Day

  Long, People, Addiction

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