Drugs Quotes
The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, seventy-fi...
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KNOW YOUR DOPE FIEND. YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT! You will not be able to see his eyes because of th...
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Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom...
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What sells, today, is whatever Fucks You Up - whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out ...
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What do you want? Where's the goddamn ice I ordered? Where's the booze? There's a war on, man! Peopl...
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci...
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Kill the body and the head will die.

How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this bo...
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About a week earlier I had finished a book (on the Hell's Angels, scheduled this fall by Random Hous...
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I sucked that smoke in and made it part of me, joined mystically with the universe right at that poi...
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Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again.

However, on one occasion, several years ago, I was idiot enough to take a dose of LSD. (I did it to ...
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But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, you...
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Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're j...
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take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace

It starts raining harder, I've got a long way to go walking and pushing that sore leg right along in...
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The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any iden...
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Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Graduall...
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The intercom buzzes while you're changing your shirt. You push the Talk button: "Who is it?" "Narcot...
Show MoreThe night has already turned on that imperceptible pivot where two A.M. changes to six A.M. You know...
Show MoreYour brain at this moment is composed of brigades of tiny Bolivian soldiers. They are tired and mudd...
Show MoreThe level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You a...
Show MoreMan I'm high off life. Fuck it, I'm WASTED
The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
Drugs are a bet with your mind.
People are strange . . .
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of ...
Show MoreThe basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessorie...
Show MoreThere are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, a...
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Dominique (who, like other Catamount girls, had a cache of pills for every occasion) offered me a be...
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I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're pr...
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If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

It wasn't some Puritan thing. Straight-edge was asking adherents to take control of their lives, not...
Show MoreDrugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes a...
Show MoreAnd I do, god, how I do love playing live, it's the most primal form of energy release you can share...
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Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone ...
Show More(On his addiction to opiods): I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.
So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my ...
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I had tried marijuana several times, but in the words of my friend and longtime assistant Janet Star...
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Way back before you were born, Calla and Persephone and I were messing around with things we probabl...
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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
In the field I’m in, there is a lot of that and it gets offered to me all the time. People even go a...
Show MoreCuriously, growing Papaver somniferum in America is legal—unless, that is, it is done in the knowled...
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Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but al...
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Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now i...
Show MoreThis plea comes from the bottom of my heart. Every friend of freedom, and I know you are one, must b...
Show MoreHe was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone...
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Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting ques...
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Fame is the worst pain known to man. It’s stronger than heroin.
I think it is important for our society to wonder why it has lately become so ready to accept that h...
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Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving c...
Show MoreSpray a bug with a toxin and it dies; spray a man, spray his brain, and he becomes an insect that cl...
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This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. They ...
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We're all dreaming,” Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the l...
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I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is j...
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I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.
A lady that I know just came from Colombia. She laughed because I did not understand. She held out s...
Show MoreHistory, as taught by schools, has white washed the drunkenness out of the past. It has minimized th...
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Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.
You want to know the truth about drugs? You can only go one or two ways. You can go up, or you can g...
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Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hambur...
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Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
The same as a cigarette?" asked Rita excitedly, as Mrs. Sin bent over her."The same, but very, very ...
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I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of c...
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything s...
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There'a a phrase, "the elephant in the living room", which purports to describe what it's like to li...
Show MoreThe idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-in...
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I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone…I didn’t ever...
Show MoreEcstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empat...
Show MoreI think of going to the Grave without having a Psychedelic Experience is like going to the Grave wit...
Show MoreNo other drug can compete with cannabis for its ability to satisfy the innate yearnings for Archaic ...
Show MoreWe can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. L...
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here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once di...
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The Doper's DreamLast night I dreamed I was plugged right inTo a bubblin' hookah so high,When all of...
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The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and ...
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LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken ...
Show MoreIf you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same ...
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In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the...
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Ink, a Drug.

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is ...
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Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, banef...
Show MorePeople use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate ...
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The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans ...
Show MoreTo begin with, there is an almost compulsive promiscuity associated with homosexual behavior. 75% of...
Show MoreWhen you stop growing you start dying. An addict never stops growing. – A user is a continual state ...
Show MoreWhether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary...
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Junk sickness is the reverse side of junk kick. The kick of junk is that you have to have it. Junkie...
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A junkie spends half his life waiting.

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

I don’t spot junk neighbourhoods by the way they look, but by the feel, somewhat the same process by...
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In the City Market is the Meet Café. Followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades doodling in Etruscan,...
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LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind ...
Show MoreIt wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say...
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She shook her head. "It sounds suspiciously like Nirvana." "What's wrong with that?" "Pure Spirit, o...
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