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I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviat...

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You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates reli...

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Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in ...

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I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, gra...

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to ask them to legalize pot is something like asking them to put butter on the handcuffs before they...

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I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be ha...

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I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available. If you try it once, you will die. You...

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While looking at a website for liposuction, I learned that it was a six-to eight-week recovery perio...

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I don't like to overdose. Call me old-fashioned.

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

You young people, you who think you invented fun and drugs, fuck you

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Chuck PalahniukInvisible Monsters Remix

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in the...

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Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

Dope.They sell that shit to schoolkids.It's worse than that.How's that?Schoolkids buy it.

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Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men

I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just brin...

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Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men

I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone because it'll ruin my image.

If I have a near-beer, I’m near beer. And if I’m near beer, I’m close to tequila. And if I’m close t...

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From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What c...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

I told her that I didn't want to take any drugs. That I had come here not to take drugs. "Listen," s...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

The truth is that Leon, like a lot of those-maybe everyone-who trips on acid, never really came back...

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Craig FergusonBetween the Bridge and the River

I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never ...

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I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The...

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Drug addicts driven to crime to finance their drug addiction are not often inclined toward violent c...

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Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what wo...

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Your personal will is the web your disease sits and spins in. The will you call your own ceased to b...

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...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and ...

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Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with despe...

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Time wasn't passing so much as kneeling beside him in a torn tee-shirt disclosing the rodent-nosed t...

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I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

Not a clue – and, no, I don’t touch drugs. The world’s unstable enough without scrambling your brain...

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I asked her, dreamily, if we had met, and when she told me that we had not, I gave her a little fing...

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David SedarisLet's Explore Diabetes with Owls

My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curios...

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After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I d...

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Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading th...

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People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

Though I would have died rather than told anyone, I was worried my exuberant drug use had damaged my...

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Donna TarttThe Goldfinch

Chronotropic Drugs:Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have n...

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Douglas CouplandPlayer One: What Is to Become of Us

I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not be...

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It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with [referring to crystal methamphetamines]

A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs tr...

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Frank ZappaThe Real Frank Zappa Book

In the cramped confines of the toilet I had trouble getting out of my wet trousers, which clung to m...

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Geoff DyerYoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It

Fuck the drug war. Dropping acid was a profound turning point for me, a seminal experience. I make n...

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If it wasn't for flash backs, I wouldn't remember anything at all.

It is ironic-rouse the limpest adjective-that a government as spontaneously tyrannous and callous as...

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Gore VidalPerpetual War for Perpetual Peace

I was at this guy's house. I met this girl who was hanging out there. She was real pretty, she had b...

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The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, seventy-fi...

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Journalism, to me, is just another drug – a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straig...

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Hunter S. ThompsonFear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

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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Hunter S. ThompsonFear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom...

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Hunter S. ThompsonFear and Loathing in Las Vegas

What sells, today, is whatever Fucks You Up - whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out ...

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Hunter S. ThompsonFear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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.

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Hunter S. ThompsonFear and Loathing in Las Vegas

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci...

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Hunter S. ThompsonFear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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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Hunter S. ThompsonFear and Loathing in Las Vegas

About a week earlier I had finished a book (on the Hell's Angels, scheduled this fall by Random Hous...

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Hunter S. ThompsonThe Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman

I sucked that smoke in and made it part of me, joined mystically with the universe right at that poi...

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Iain BanksComplicity

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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James FreyA Million Little Pieces

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...

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The night has already turned on that imperceptible pivot where two A.M. changes to six A.M. You know...

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Your brain at this moment is composed of brigades of tiny Bolivian soldiers. They are tired and mudd...

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The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You a...

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Man 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.

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of ...

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The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessorie...

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There 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.

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Keith RichardsKeith Richards: In His Own Words

It wasn't some Puritan thing. Straight-edge was asking adherents to take control of their lives, not...

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Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes a...

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And 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 ...

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(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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Linda RonstadtSimple Dreams: A Musical Memoir

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...

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Curiously, growing Papaver somniferum in America is legal—unless, that is, it is done in the knowled...

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Michael PollanThe Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but al...

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Michael PollanThe Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now i...

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This plea comes from the bottom of my heart. Every friend of freedom, and I know you are one, must b...

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He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone...

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Nelson AlgrenThe Man With the Golden Arm

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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Peter HitchensThe War We Never Fought: The British Establishment's Surrender to Drugs

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving c...

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