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"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."
"I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink."
"I like to have a martini/Two at the very most."
"There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, 'Garcon! Un Pernod!'"
"I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish."
"I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?"
"It was too much Tequila, or not quite enough."
"Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time."
"Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk."
"Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today."
"Women are my drugs and alcohol. When I'm involved with one woman, I'm involved with one woman. Period. But between romances, I am carnivorous."
"You won't hear any more alcohol songs from Snoop Dogg - unless I stumble upon some Hennessy."
"Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction."
"That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end."
"I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?"
"If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue."
"Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness."
"Cocaine eyes won't hide your face."
"I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion."
"Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but I can still ruin soft drinks for everyone!."
