#addict

...it was my father who had taught me to love books for themselves, the smell of the vellum and paper, the rare authority of the pages. "Here, do you see this marvelous book, the skins of 182 sheep," he once pronounced as he slapped his hand down on the stamped leather cover boards. "The book is a flock, a jewel, a cemetery, a lantern, a garden, a piss pot; pigments ground of precious minerals, charred bone, lamp soot, rare plants and insects. Pigments formed at the corrosion of copper plates suspended above urine. ↗

— Regina O'Melveny

#book-lovers-addiction #history #treasures #art

This is the kind of thing that makes sense to them; this is a language they know. They know what to do with`disease'. They know how to attach a doctor's medical descriptions to hope. ↗

— Amy Reed

#disease #life #loss #pain #life

I was raised really, really healthy, pretty much vegetarian and a very clean lifestyle, I don't smoke, I don't drink. I'm more addicted to the things that make me feel good - endorphins after working out. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#after #clean #drink #feel #feel good

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— George W. Bush

#destruction #dictator #homicidal #hussein #mass

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#memoir #recovery #suicide #surviving #transformation

Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#agencies #alcohol #business #businesses #certain

America is addicted to wars of distraction. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#america #distraction #wars

I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#i #particularly #proud #something #stop

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#admire #anyone #himself #i #who

Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#alcohol #back #days #deal #difficult