Addict Quotes - Page 6

• Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Men, Energy

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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• Having more and newer things each year has become not just something we want but something we need. The idea of more, of ever increasing wealth, has become the center of our identity and our security, and we are caught up by it as the addict by his drugs.

  Paul L Wachtel

  Inspiring, Years, Ideas

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• In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.

  Ethan Hawke

  New York, Car, Cracks

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• I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Play, Guy, Drug

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• I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Basketball, Kentucky, Long

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.50, Pan Macmillan

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• Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

  Jeanne Moreau

  People, Addiction, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Botox, Return, Moments

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.8, Penguin

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• Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest,” Mrs. Grogan was saying, “and peace at last.” Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud’s, who was seventy-something, and an ether addict, and who felt that he’d come a long way and still had a long way to go.

  John Irving

  Clouds, Long, Saint

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• stick at it like a benni addict

  Jack Kerouac

  Sticks

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• Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to be outrageous but really weren't.

  David Sedaris

  Sex, Writing, Class

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• I contribute to the dead of winter and the moans of silence, blood trails are music to my ears … I'm a gut pile addict … The pig didn't know I was there … it's my kick … I love shafting animals … it's rock 'n' roll power.

  Ted Nugent

  Winter, Animal, Rocks

  "Never a dull moment with the Nugent" by Dan Craft, www.pantagraph.com. August 2, 2007.

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• I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

  Nina Simone

  Music, Cat, Drug

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• She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Delight, Hooked

  Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, James P. White (1989). “Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader”, Vintage

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• [T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.

  Jay-Z

  Medical Problems, Addiction, Drug

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.51, Random House Group

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• The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

  Russell Brand

  Pain, Addiction, Priorities

  "Amy Winehouse's Death: Russell Brand Pens Appreciation For the Late Singer" by Jane Kellogg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 24, 2011.

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

  Darynda Jones

  Chocolate, Heroin, Covered

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

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• Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor.

  Peter Lynch

  Long, Cracks, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• People that don’t know and hear about it, they start to think that all the people that do jiu-jitsu smokes pot, is a drug addict. Here I am fighting for something good, and the guy is fighting for something bad, in my point of view. I can’t agree with that, what he represents. Nothing to do with his jiu-jitsu, his school. If you want to do something like that, do it in private. Keep it to yourself.

  Royce Gracie

  School, Fighting, Thinking

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• I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.

  Rick Reilly

  Baby, Moon, Sugar

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• John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

  Cornel West

  Holiday, America, Our Society

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• Instead of applauding sex addict pastors, we need to tell them to either preach the Gospel with their lives or get out from behind that pulpit!

  Eric Ludy

  Sex, Needs, Pulpit

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• They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic. Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars… When they depart, they shake hands and embrace like old friends, even if they have only just met, and as they go their separate ways they feel less alone than they had before.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stars, Hands, People

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• . We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldn’t possibly want this kind of life. But maybe that’s not true. Maybe they don’t want to live like other people — it just wouldn’t suit them.

  Jo Nesbo

  Attitude, People, Drug

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• Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again...

  Chelsea Cain

  Running, Ideas, Serial Killer

  Chelsea Cain (2011). “Evil at Heart”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

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• Love exists in powder. Love exists in pills. We are all addicts.

  Pete Wentz

  Pills, Powder

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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