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• A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Medical, Hypochondriac

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.64, BookBaby

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• There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass of water. The water was dead. So it goes. Air was trying to get out of the dead water. Bubbles were clinging to the walls of the glass, too weak to climb out.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Wall, Glasses, Air

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• When the artless doctor sees
  No one hope, but of his fees,
  And his skill runs on the lees;
  Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
  When his potion and his pill,
  Has, or none, or little skill,
  Meet for nothing, but to kill;
  Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

  Robert Herrick

  Running, Sweet, Doctors

  'His Litany to the Holy Spirit'

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• Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Acceptance, People, World

  Virginibus Puerisque "Crabbed Age and Youth" (1881)

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• I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sports, Medicine, Rocks

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• Each day, as I take various pills, I realize that without those pills I might not be alive -- and, if I were, life would not be worth living. Yet those who produce these medications are under constant attack from people who produce nothing.

  Thomas Sowell

  Medicine, People, Each Day

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• I would say whisky or pills. Not both because that can have disastrous consequences.

  John C. Reilly

  Whisky, Consequence

  Source: collider.com

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• In terms of being a kind of popular artist figure and knowing how isolating that is, and knowing what it feels like to be skeptical of people, and to be taken advantage of, especially by your friends. That's a hard to pill to swallow, and we've been through that together, or watched each other go through it. It helps to have somebody that close to you who can relate. I can say with some confidence that I feel like Sky saved my life.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Taken, Artist, Knowing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

  Alanis Morissette

  Moving, Two, Unapologetic

  "The Hot Seat: Singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette". Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.timeout.com. August 19, 2012.

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• Down in the national news section, there's an article on a new pill, the 'Valium' they're calling it, 'to help women cope with everyday challenges.' God, I could use about ten of those little pills right now.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Challenges, Everyday, News

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.245, Penguin

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• We be sticking pill up girl's booty, too!

  Lil Boosie

  Girl, Rapper, Booty

  "The 20 Funniest Things Rappers Have Ever Said (Not In a Rap Song)" by Brian Brooks, Nicholas Sella, www.complex.com. October 27, 2013.

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• To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs. If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were not going to change the fundamental problem in the construction. Wanting what you can´t have. Looking for self-worth in the mirror. Layering work on top of work and still wondering why you weren´t satisfied - before working some more.

  Mitch Albom

  Taken, Self Worth, Mirrors

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• Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.

  Octavia Butler

  Pain, Hypocrite, Sleep

  Octavia E. Butler (2014). “Kindred”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. (5)

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Mean, Advice

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• Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized sacred Scripture. Witches are today being burned in South Africa.... The worldwide TM [Transcendental Meditation] organization has an estimated valuation of $3 billion. For a fee, they promise to make you invisible, to enable you to fly.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, War, Numbers

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• Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Drug, Overcoming, Ears

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• In Hamburg the waiters always had Preludin - and various other pills, but I remember Preludin because it was such a big trip - and they were all taking these pills to keep themselves awake, to work these incredible hours in this all-night place. And so the waiters, when they'd see the musicians falling over with tiredness or with drink, they'd give you the pill. You'd take the pill, you'd be talking, you'd sober up, you could work almost endlessly - until the pill wore off, then you'd have to have another.

  John Lennon

  Fall, Night, Sober Up

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• The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Believe, Abortion, Etc

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• They were actually pills to make slimming easier for you. We used to take them with a couple of beers. They made you just a little speedy. But you can't compare it to speed from today or cocaine or anything. It's just baby food compared to that.

  Astrid Kirchherr

  Baby, Couple, Beer

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• Criticism is a painful pill to swallow, but it always makes you better.

  Wes Fesler

  Criticism, Painful

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• In my arms is a woman who has given me a Skywatcher's Cloud Chart, a woman who knows all my secrets, a woman who knows just how messed up my mind is, how many pills I'm on, and yet she allows me to hold her anyway. There's something honest about all this, and I cannot imagine any other woman lying in the middle of a frozen soccer field with me - in the middle of a snowstorm even - impossibly hoping to see a single cloud break free of a nimbostratus.

  Matthew Quick

  Soccer, Lying, Clouds

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.189, Pan Macmillan

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• Sometimes IVs and pills weren’t always the best course of treatment for the injured. Sometimes all you needed was the touch of the one you loved and the sound of their voice and the knowledge that you were home, and that was enough to drag you back from the brink.

  J.R. Ward

  Home, Voice, Sound

  J.R. Ward (2008). “The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide”, p.34, Penguin

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• We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself.

  Michael Cunningham

  Party, Struggle, Book

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.225, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I'd had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I was not all sure. Putting myself in Dr. Gold's shoes, I wondered if he seriously thought that this juiceless and ravaged semi-invalid with the shuffle and the ancient wheeze woke up each morning from his Halcion sleep eager for carnal fun.

  William Styron

  Morning, Fun, Sleep

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.31, Open Road Media

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• I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling.

  Sylvia Plath

  Taken, Feelings

  Sylvia Plath “Poemas”, Editora Iluminuras Ltda

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