#diction

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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 would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and like playing a lot of really precise pool.


David Foster Wallace


#alcoholics-anonymous #bikers #drugs #recovery #sobriety

Imagine this: Ice is coming to YOUR house. Can you HEAR it knocking? Are you ready? What will YOU do?


Cornelia Connie D. DeDona


#crystal-meth #drug-addiction #education #enabler #rehabilitation

[The laws of logic] were placed in our minds by the Creator during the act of creation. We speak because God has spoken. God is not the author of confusion, irrationality, or the absurd. Furthermore, his words are meant to be understood by his creatures, and a necessary condition for his creature's understanding of those words is that they are intelligible and not irrational.


R. C. Sproul


#god #logic #the-law-of-noncontradiction #faith

It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.


Andrew Davidson


#withdrawal #money

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.


Italo Calvino


#inadequacy-of-words #language #literature #writing #literature