"Every junkie is like a setting sun."
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"We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking."
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"Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty."
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"Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on."
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"But that's a side effect of alcohol, isn't it? Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu."
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"I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is."
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"I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move."
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"The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work."
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"I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past."
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"Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties."
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"Cheap booze is a false economy."
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"The effects of mescalin or LSD can be, in some respects, far more satisfying than those of alcohol. To begin with, they last longer; they also leave behind no hangover, and leave the mental faculties clear and unimpaired. They stimulate the faculties and produce the ideal ground for a peak experience."
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"Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me."
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"I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals."
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"Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it."
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"I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?"
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"There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes."
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"The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them."
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"It's been about a week without alcohol of any kind. I'm enjoying my new, clean-living lifestyle."
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"I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't make me fat, like alcohol. I wondered if there was any harm in being addicted to only these."
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