"The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world."
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"One of the things that's attractive about cyberspace is that it can be construed as no threat. If you see it through the video game keyhole, the amusement keyhole, the entertainment keyhole, it is no threat. If you see it through the LSD keyhole, the consciousness-expanding keyhole, it's like electronic drugs: it is a threat."
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"By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout."
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"I am sure antidepressants, drugs, and liquor have their place. But so far, that place is in others, not me."
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"Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's like drink, or anything, you've got to come to terms with it. You know, like too much food, or too much anything. You've got to get out of it. You're left with yourself all the time, whatever you do--you know, meditation, drugs or anything. But you've got to get down to your own god and your own temple in your head."
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"I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it."
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"Becoming a vegan gave me another opportunity to live a healthy life. I was so congested from all the drugs and bad cocaine, I could hardly breathe, [I had] high blood pressure, [was] almost dying [and had] arthritis. And once I became a vegan all that stuff diminished."
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"I could never stop drugs, I could never stop drinking, until I received my spiritual awakening."
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"The mind & body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs & music."
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""Drugs" are not necessarily narcotics. The narcotic is one type of drug and coffee is a drug... booze is a drug... many drugs.... They're all around us."
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"It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man could ever encompass."
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"Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos."
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"I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a quaalude."
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"Valium would have helped that bash."
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"Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery."
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"Drug dealers live vicariously through me"
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"I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road."
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"So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record."
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"What happens to the faith healer and the shaman when any poor citizen can see the full effect of drugs or surgeries, administered without ceremonies or mystifications? Roughly the same thing as happens to the rainmaker when the climatologist turns up, or to the diviner from the heavens when schoolteachers get hold of elementary telescopes."
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"We're talking about a prison-industrial complex. We're talking about a war on drugs that's generating unprecedented levels of incarcerated folk. We're talking about dilapidated housing. We're talking about joblessness and underemployment."
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