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• I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Grandmother, Comfort

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• There's no narcotic like exhaustion.

  Octavia Butler

  Exhaustion

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Sower”, p.226, Open Road Media

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• Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is ananathema to these idiots. I predict that in the near future, right wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.

  Gus Van Sant

  Fate, Ideas, Hysteria

  "Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S". Book by Susan C. Boyd, 2010.

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• I've jammed enough things up my own ass just trying to come on any amphetamine based narcotic.

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Humor, Trying

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• All illegal narcotics are medicinal. Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it, with little or no side effects if used as directed. Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile. You should be inventing new drugs is what you should be doing! Newer, crazier drugs... and more holes, that's what you ladies need!

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Cancer, Humor

  "Doug Stanhope: Deadbeat Hero". Comedy, August 24, 2004.

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• He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Men, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

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• On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.

  Peter Straub

  Liquid, Afternoon, Bedtime

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• I'm just here for the narcotics.

  Marilyn Manson

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• It is haram [religiously forbidden] to use narcotics in any way because it results in considerable adverse effects in terms of personal health and social cost. By the same token, it is haram to deal in narcotics in any way, i.e., carrying, transporting, storing, selling, buying, etc.

  Ali Khamenei

  Marijuana, Adverse Effects, Cost

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• When I do think, ‘Man a f—cking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars worth of narcotics would do me right,’ I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster’s never seen me high.

  Anthony

  Dog, Couple, Men

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• Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class.

  John Clellon Holmes

  Class, Kind, Middle

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• The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Boys, Cells

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• It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.

  Louis Armstrong

  Weed, Marijuana, Dope

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• Narcotic greens narcotic greens like reeling firmaments disclose in their appearing randomness the sweetest means that you or she or any wandering Thales might choose to be wonder-struck with at the moment when we die

  Marianne Bluger

  Spring, Mean, Might

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• But for the unquiet heart and brain
  A use in measured language lies;
  The sad mechanic exercise
  Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Pain, Lying, Heart

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 5

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• But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Two, People

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes”, Viking Pr

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• Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.

  Andrzej Stasiuk

  Healthy, Form

  Andrzej Stasiuk, Petra Hardt (2011). “On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Thus, the question of how and when to start vagabonding is not really a question at all. Vagabonding starts now. Even if the practical reality of travel is still months or years away, vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility. From here, the reality of vagabonding comes into sharper focus as you adjust your worldview and begin to embrace the exhilarating uncertainty that true travel promises.

  Rolf Potts

  Reality, Years, Focus

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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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• Begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.

  Rolf Potts

  Looks, Maps, Possibility

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.17, Ballantine Books

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• By government giveaway programs, individuals are often hurt far more than they are helped. The recipients of these programs become dependent on the government and their dignity is destroyed. Is it compassionate to enslave more and more people by making them a part of the government dependency cycle? I think compassion should be measured by how many people no longer need it. Helping people to become self-sufficient is much more compassionate than drugging them with the narcotic of welfare.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hurt, Thinking, Compassion

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• who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

  Allen Ginsberg

  Arms, Cigarette, Holes

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.13, City Lights Publishers

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• Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

  Tennessee Williams

  Death, Time, Dying

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation.

  James Lee Burke

  Commitment, Use, Montana

  James Lee Burke (2014). “Light of the World: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce contains narcotic properties. It is said of Galen, that he used to obtain from a head of it, eaten on going to bed, all the good effects of a dose of opium.

  William Alcott

  Bed, Cabbage, Used

  William Andrus Alcott (1838). “The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery”, p.191

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