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Addiction Quotes

"Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit"

"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour"

"Addiction is mostly about emotional pain; it is an attempt to escape the suffering that comes with being human"

"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."

"In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe"

"I'd hate to be an alcoholic, because alcoholics want to be able to drink as much as they want and not have it affect their life. I just don't see how you could drink while working at the post office"

"I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim"

"I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs"

"The circuitry of addiction runs parallel to the circuitry of love"

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."

"Even as a junkie I stayed true to my code – and this certainly wouldn’t have been a problem: I’d have taken a baby held it aloft and said ‘This baby has been sent to earth to destroy all babies’ and let it go back to its mother "

"It's not easy being drunk all the time. Everyone would do it if it were easy."

"We hustle out of a sense of hopelessness, sort of a desperation. Through that desperation, we become addicted. But we feel we have nothing to lose, so we offer you, well, we offer our lives. What do you bring to the table?"

"I’m an addict, I’m addicted to success"

"The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates"

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