Heroin Quotes - Page 8

• I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

  Stan Getz

  Years, Two, Habit

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• You can't lie to kids about drugs. They know about drugs. You can't say they're just all bad. They know life is a little more complicated. I have never done heroin. I would never recommend heroin, but it hasn't hurt my record collection.

  Bill Maher

  Hurt, Lying, Kids

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• A buddy of mine was addicted to heroin and he told me that people who say quitting cigarettes is harder than quitting heroin are wrong.

  Russell Brand

  People, Quitting, Cigarette

  The COMPLEX Interview, www.complex.com. May 25, 2010.

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• My mate Karl once told me he’d been looking after this five-year-old boy who – not knowing enough to have an ironic inflection to his words – said, ‘I want something.’ He didn’t know what it was. Not ‘I want sweets’, or ‘a can of Coke’, or ‘to watch the Tweenies’, or whatever it is they’re into now (I like Bagpuss), but ‘I want something.’ All of us, I think, have that feeling. And what heroin does when you first start taking it is tell you what that something is.

  Russell Brand

  Sweet, Boys, Thinking

  Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• Your scent is like a drug to me like my own personal brand of heroin.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Drug, Scent

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• Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.

  Luke Davies

  Sadness, Comfort, Drained

  Luke Davies (2011). “Candy”, p.213, Random House

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• So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin?" I teased, trying to lighten the mood. He smiled swiftly, seeming to appreciate my effort. "Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Appreciate, Effort, Trying

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• My parents had irrational fears of Mexico and assumed that once you crossed the border, drug runners made you swallow a heroin balloon and then within the hour you were in a bathtub full of ice and they were harvesting your kidneys.

  Justin Halpern

  Ice, Parent, Drug

  Justin Halpern (2010). “Shit My Dad Says”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Essentials, Raw Materials, Pakistan

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• You know, it's cigarettes that killed Jerry Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes.

  John Mellencamp

  Thinking, Smoking, Cigarette

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• I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

  A.C. Grayling

  Science, People, Tree

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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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• He was like chocolate-covered heroin, and I was an addict through and through.

  Darynda Jones

  Chocolate, Covered, Addict

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.37, Macmillan

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• Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  World, Strange, Journalism

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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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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• In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only the product is credit, not crack or heroin. It concentrates the money of the population in just a few hands with brutal efficiency, just like narco-business, and just as in narco-business the product itself, debt, steadily demoralizes the customer to the point where he’s unable to prevent himself from being continually dominated.

  Matt Taibbi

  Ghetto, Dope, Hands

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• believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade.

  Douglas Coupland

  Memories, Believe, Princess

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• He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin.

  Steig Larsson

  Desire, Together, Connections

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• Ah, youth. It's like heroin you've smoked instead of snorted. Gone so fast you can't believe you still have to pay for it.

  Josh Bazell

  Believe, Gone, Pay

  Josh Bazell (2009). “Beat The Reaper”, p.108, Random House

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• I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.

  Alan Moore

  Children, Cockroaches, Pornography

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• Ros was dead. He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining; he was the first of my friends to fall.

  Craig Ferguson

  Fall, Firsts, My Friends

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• I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was. It didn't do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn't have fancied heading down that road.

  Paul McCartney

  Taken, Drug, Lucky

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• Strange thing, when they arrested me for the pot, the federal agents, they said, "We're sorry, we really don't want to bust pot people but this is tied into a heroin operation and we have to arrest you."

  George Jung

  Sorry, People, Agents

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Children, Special, Want

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• Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you’re not there anymore. It’s better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.

  Mary Karr

  Reading, Flip, Accepted

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