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And finally the glass that contains and spills this stuff continually while the drinker hunches before it, while the bartender gathers up empties, gives back the drinker's own face. Who knows what it looks like; who cares whether or not it was young once, or ever lovely, who gives a shit about some drunk rising to stagger toward the bathroom, some man or woman or even lost angel who recklessly threw it all over—heaven, the ether, the celestial works—and said, Fuck it, I want to be human?


Kim Addonizio


#loss #love

It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing? Would Great Ormond Street be so attractive a cause if its beds were riddled with obnoxious little criminals that had “brought it on themselves?


Russell Brand


#drug-addiction #family #sympathy #family

I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.


William Booth


#predictions #religion #forgiveness

We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.


Anne Wilson Schaef


#addiction #addictions #addictive #another #first

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.


John Ralston Saul


#expressed #opinion #order #truth

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.


L. Sprague de Camp


#advance #avoid #characters #contradictions #detail

Impossibility is a dictionary word.


Sri Chinmoy


#impossibility #word

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.


David Douglass


#appealing #contrary #facts #how #hypothesis

One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments...is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is 'dis-ease.


T.F. Hodge


#harmony #peace #quietness #quotes #recurring

Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate.


John Dingell


#close #democrats #house #i #i think