#drugs

His life was a party which tragically came to an early end. ↗

— David J. Cooper

#drugs #male-prostitution #tragedy #life

Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#ya-fiction #funny

Disease is the biggest money maker in our economy. ↗

— John H. Tobe

#drugs #economy #healing #medicine #money

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope. ↗

— Charles Revson

#drugstore #factory #hope #make #sell

I suppose at heart it was the haircut that did it; that exploded the ordinary order of things and showed me the possibilities that had been there all along, hidden among the patterns in the wallpaper. In a different age, we used to take acid for more or less the same reason. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#change #drugs #glbtq #haircut #identity

Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974) ↗

— Legs McNeil

#art

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#amy-winehouse #blues #death #drugs #jazz

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other. (pg. 61, "Racism and the Economy") ↗

— Wendell Berry

#drugs #health #loneliness #art

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

— Fergie

#crystal-meth #drugs #female #life #musician

I come in here and you gotta be here; I’m thinkin’ about football, and you gotta be here with your tits and your ass and this tight shrunken clothes and these shriveled jeans, so that’s all I’m thinking about from the minute I see you is tits and ass. Football doesn’t have a chance against it. It’s like this invasion of tits and ass overwhelming my own measly individuality so I don’t have a prayer to have my own thoughts about my own things except you and tits and ass and sucking and fucking and that’s all I can think about. My privacy has been demolished. You think a person wants that kind of a thing to happen their heads - they are trying to give their problems some serious thought, the next thing they know there’s nothing in their brains as far as they can see but your tits and ass? You think a person likes that? ↗

— David Rabe

#high #hurlyburly #phil #attitude