Kevin Sessums Quotes

#1. One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.

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#2. Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.

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#3. I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.

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#4. To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.

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#5. I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.

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#6. I was raped: I said no and he wouldn't stop. I also had a scar on my back and blood coming out of my ass. To some that's just rough sex. Some would read that sentence and be turned on by that: the 51st Shade of Gay.

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#7. Sometimes if I am walking down the street and thinking about my panoply of God, Ganesha, Parvati [Ganesha's mother], I say "Lucifer," because he belongs in that panoply. I miss him. That's why I'm a theist.

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#8. I haven't had sex in two and a half years. A guy I met in San Francisco gave me a sympathy blow job. It didn't really work. I said, "You're just doing this 'cause you feel sorry for me." We stopped in the middle.

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#9. There's always a door you don't get in. I'm a star in my own right for certain things. I'll own that. During Oscar weekend I did fabulous things. But there's still one inner sanctum I'm not allowed in. That's the one I'm fixated on.

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#10. I am a theist. I live life between that "a" and the "t." It's a vast little space.

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#11. When one person mentors, two lives are changed.

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#12. I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don't look at themselves as being raped. We're not raised that way.

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#13. People who aren't addicts want to know why I became one. They ask whether I had a midlife crisis. I'm only speaking for myself now, but I've stopped asking why and how. It's all about surrender and acceptance. It doesn't matter why I am an addict.

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#14. I find myself applying the addict's impulse to how I cruise. I don't look at the ass. If I see a hot guy walking towards me I look at his arm, and if he has a vein I fantasize about shooting up with him.

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#15. Some people say you have to be a Christian to be saved. I had to stop being Christian to be saved.

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