Top 100 Quotes About Addiction Drugs

#1. I have two quizzes tomorrow. I am playing Pokemon in a bar while high on heroin.

Morbo2000

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#2. In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

Aimee Mann

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#3. Worse that drugs is drug trafficking. Much worse. Drugs are a disease, and I don't think that there are good drugs or that marijuana is good. Nor cigarettes. No addiction is good. I include alcohol. The only good addiction is love. Forget everything else.

Jose Mujica

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#4. Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.

Layne Staley

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#5. It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

David Bowie

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

William S. Burroughs

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#7. In spite of the anguish my addiction to drugs and alcohol has caused me, I wouldn't relinquish its lessons

Russell Brand

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#8. In the debate over opioid addiction, there's one group we aren't hearing from: chronic pain patients, many of whom need to use the drugs on a long-term basis.

S. E. Smith

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#9. Introduced Doc to the miracle of morphine. From that very first shot it was as if he'd discovered the one vital ingredient that God had left out when He'd sent Doc kicking and screaming into the cold, cruel world.

Steve Earle

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#10. I learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless I have a boyfriend. A real man is like the perfect vampire-boy and all the perfect guys in Twue Wuv.

Jess C. Scott

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#11. But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

Armistead Maupin

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#12. Drug addicts had their drugs. Alcoholics had their bottles. Serial killers had their murders.

Jess C. Scott

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#13. This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical thinking, to escape the ravages of an unoccupied mind cannibalizing itself.

Norah Vincent

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#14. Drugs suck more than anything else I have ever liked so much.

Ashly Lorenzana

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#15. Dependence on drugs is not a disease, it is not a virus, it is not something that stalks only the dregs of society. Drug addiction is REALIZED EMOTIONAL DEFICIENCY SYNDROME.

Plamen Chetelyazov

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#16. It was as if the pearly gates had just opened and God had walked out and said, "Pax, my son, I'm going to free you from your addiction. I'm going to let you see why you've been using heroin and all the other drugs for the past ten years.

Pax Prentiss

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#17. Imagine trying to live without air.
Now imagine something worse.

Amy Reed

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#18. In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin.

Terri Blackstock

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#19. I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that.

Heather O'Neill

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#20. My fear of abandonment is exceeded only by my terror of intimacy.

Ethlie Ann Vare

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#21. It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

Gabor Mate

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#22. Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.

Ashly Lorenzana

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#23. I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.

Bertice Berry

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#24. Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)

James Surowiecki

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#25. It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

Steven Kassels

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#26. The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors.

Asa Don Brown

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#27. Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears!

Gary Goldstein

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#28. Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.

John Hardwick

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#29. I used to find myself goofed out in the street on drugs. And I had such a bad problem with addiction at the time that I didn't mind. I was dealing cocaine and shooting up a lot of cocaine. And that's not a good space to be in.

Will Self

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#30. But maybe because I'm from a part of the country where there are more meth labs than drive-throughs, anything harder than cough syrup always makes me nervous.

Alena Graedon

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#31. Just like using drugs and alcohol to numb the pain can -- and does -- lead to addiction, using social media to fill the void of relationships, or other needs, often leads to addiction, as well.

Mandy J. Hoffman

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#32. It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode; rather it is comprised of a number of episodes over an extended period of time.

Asa Don Brown

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#33. Looking back, I have come to realize that the gang lifestyle back then - the fame, the respect, and the recognition - was stronger and powerful than any drug. We were serious with what we were dealing with. It was like a do or die situation. Shelton 'Apples' Burrows reform gang leader

Drexel Deal

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#34. No drug mafia can run his business without affiliation with the governance.

Sumit Agarwal

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#35. Drugs didn't have to be a messy business anymore, because science had taken addiction out of the equation.

Kit Rocha

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#36. I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is just as stupid as saying, You could grow eyes in the back of your head if you really wanted to.

Philip K. Dick

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#37. But here's the rub of addiction. By its nature, people afflicted are unable to do what, from the outside, appears to be a simple solution - don't drink. Don't use drugs. In exchange for that one small sacrifice, you will be given a gift that other terminally ill people would give anything for: life.

David Sheff

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#38. I didn't want to take it. I knew it was a powerful drug, but I also knew it was a catabolic drug that consumed the body.

David Millar

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#39. Thousands are killed and injured every year by teenagers driving too fast or under the influence of drugs and drink ... others are killing [themselves] with alcohol or heroin overdoses.

Billy Graham

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#40. Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything ... I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate ... It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs ...

David Sheff

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#41. Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

Christopher Lasch

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#42. It isn't drugs addicts have to give up. It's misery.

Marty Rubin

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#43. Gadgets are the new drugs and we are GIPPIES (Gadget Hippies).

Saurabh Sharma

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#44. Getting rid of the drugs doesn't get rid of all the other ways you learned to deal with the world. It's not that easy.

Amy Reed

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#45. I loved books, even as I loved the similar way opium had of transporting a mind elsewhere

Karina Cooper

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#46. Some, they didn't make it.
The temptation just too strong.
How can darkness cloud the mind
To what I know as wrong?

Kimberly Nalen

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#47. Most people are dependent on legal drugs but this is somehow not an obstacle to seeing an enemy in every underground addict.

Plamen Chetelyazov

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#48. I once tried to give him a friendly little "drugs chat". He politely corrected me on every single fact, then said he'd noticed I drank above the recommended guidelines of Red Bull and did I think I might have an addiction? That was the last time I tried to act like the older sister.

Sophie Kinsella

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#49. The answer to the drug problem is not criminalisation and incarceration, but education, regulation and treatment.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

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#50. The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.

Lee L Jampolsky

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#51. We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because you can't cope with your life without some sort of support, even if that support is damaging.

Chris Prentiss

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#52. Some of the most heart-breaking letters I receive are from people who tell how alcohol or drugs have ravaged their lives and destroyed their families.

Billy Graham

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#53. 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

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#54. Don't let these tattoos fool you. I'm straight edge. I'm a man of great discipline; I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs ... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition. Discipline. My name is C ... M ... Punk.

CM Punk

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#55. There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.

Layne Staley

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#56. I don't spot junk neighbourhoods by the way they look, but by the feel, somewhat the same process by which a dowser locates hidden water. I am walking along and suddenly the junk in my cells moves and twitches like the dowsers wand: 'Junk here!

William S. Burroughs

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#57. Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) does not work. Opiate addicts live in our communities and in our families & they work in our businesses.

Steven Kassels

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#58. Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.

Ice-T

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#59. Those drugs were either going to bring me nirvana or they were going to kill me. I was sure of it. And I was comfortable with it.

Joss Sheldon

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#60. When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.

Abel Ferrara

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#61. At least, when there's fear, there's some human part left in you. Once that's gone, though, there is nothing.

Liz Thebart

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#62. He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far to fall, so cold all the way, so steep and dark between those morphine-coloured walls ...

Nelson Algren

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#63. There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.

Liz Thebart

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#64. When the headlines get black and foreboding, the sale of alcohol and barbiturates rises in the country, as millions try to escape from the grim realities of [such] dangers.

Billy Graham

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#65. If love is a form of substance abuse, I hope to die high.

Crystal Woods

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#66. What the hell is that?" he asked.
"Magic mushrooms."
"I've always wanted to try those," he exclaimed. "They sound so cute.

Heather O'Neill

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#67. One thing I've learned is it's better to be addicted to things than people. You get hooked on a thing and if someone takes it from you, you can find another source. Only people can really hurt you. Only people can push you out into the cold permanently.

A.M. Riley

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#68. (On his addiction to opiods): I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

Lenny Bruce

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#69. So to me, what the drugs and addiction are saying is that I deserve to feel good, I'm allowed to take this because look how I was treated as a child. Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.

Bernie Siegel

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#70. Purple Mike promises to be an intriguing read that will teach anyone who wants to know about the highs and lows of drug addiction. Purple Mike is a legal, natural high. Enjoy reading.

Sin Mils

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#71. My greatest struggle is to coexist while watching the people I love choose less than life-supporting paths via drugs, alcohol, or poor lifestyle decisions. There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.

Mike Love

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#72. Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.

Michael Botticelli

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#73. A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in their lives.

Patrick J. Kennedy

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#74. To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

P. J. O'Rourke

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#75. People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

Dennis Prager

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#76. It took a month for the gestalt of drugs and tension he moved through to turn those perpetually startled eyes into wells of reflexive need. He'd watched her personality fragment, calving like an iceberg, splinters drifting away, and finally he'd seen the raw need, the hungry armature of addiction.

William Gibson

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#77. [...] we grieved for both our lives, in which we were both more dead than alive.

Liz Thebart

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#78. Here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail.

Thomas De Quincey

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#79. It starts raining harder, I've got a long way to go walking and pushing that sore leg right along in the gathering rain, no chance no intention whatever of hailing a cab, the whiskey and the Morphine have made me unruffled by the sickness of the poison in my heart.

Jack Kerouac

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#80. The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation.. What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving.

Deepak Chopra

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#81. No one is entitled to anything. Everything we get in this life we have worked for. And sometimes we take on baggage we never even signed up for, but that dosen't mean you deserve it. I wake up everyday wishing I could change things, but I can't change past. All I can do is change the future.

E.M. Youman

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#82. Addiction isn't about using drugs. It's about what the drug does to your life.

Enock Maregesi

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#83. A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings.

David Emerald Womeldorff

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#84. Love is the best drug, bar none.

Crystal Woods

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#85. My nose bleeds, and every comedown feels like an overdose. I try to make peace with God each time, but he shows no interest, and it reminds me of my dad, and I get so upset that I just have to do another line. Like I said, a cycle.

Kris Kidd

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#86. My father taught me to not fear anything. Having said that, much of my addiction to alcohol and drugs was tied to fear: fear of flying, fear of talking to women, etc. I conquered those fears years ago.

Derek Sanderson

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#87. A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery ... don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me?

Ashly Lorenzana

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#88. Being mad at a drug addict for doing what drug addicts do, is like being mad at a shark for doing what sharks do, or being mad at a cockroach for doing what cockroaches do.

Oliver Markus

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#89. Loving you has been worse than an addiction to drugs.
At least I don't have the drugs c r a w l i n g into my bed at night.

LeAnne Mechelle

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#90. Love, like addiction, removes all choices...

Liz Thebart

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#91. My dad struggled with cocaine addiction, and we actually went to rehab with him too. I remember having extensive talks with him about how I was wired a certain way, how I wouldn't be able to drink and do drugs the same way my friends got to.

Ryan Montgomery

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#92. There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.

Moshe Kasher

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#93. I opened the doors to Hell and walked in gleefully.

Liz Thebart

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#94. All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

Thomas Szasz

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#95. Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more of it!
Strange when you consider their answer to drug dependence is to cut off the supply.

Bill Maher

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#96. [...] but for the first time ever, I finally had it in me and I wanted to live. He had taught me well indeed.

Liz Thebart

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#97. Funny how someone can be so beautiful and totally fucked up at the same time.

Missy Anne

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#98. I wind up stretched across the couch
still nodding with Sherlock Holmes
examining our crushed veins

Jim Carroll

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#99. Drug cartels have taken the driver's seat, training our young
men and women on how best to self destruct, while the larger
community watches on helplessly as these bands of renegades lead
our people towards the path of self annihilation

Oche Otorkpa

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#100. I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back together ... I just love the stories. The stories of the fallen world, they excite us. That's the interesting stuff.

Denis Johnson

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