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the king-types who would snatch the apple from your hand and claim to have grown it, even though what they had, had come to them intact, or been gained unfairly (the nature of that unfairness perhaps being just that they had been born
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“Lung cancer, traffic accidents and the millions of miserable and misery-creating alcoholics are facts even more certain than was, in Dante’s day, the fact of the Inferno. But all such facts are remote and unsubstantial compared with the near, felt fact of a craving, here and now, for release or sedation, for a drink or a smoke.”
― The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell
― The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell
“Wishing for love is the same as wishing for more wishes.”
― The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
― The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
“But the wicked have a different head for numbers than most. Any bad they do will end up on the side of never-mind. What’s done to them weighs double.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“I’m an alcoholic who doesn’t (and doesn’t want to) drink anymore so I exist in a state of never-ending micro-addictions that reveal themselves in the form of obsessions.”
― This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't
― This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't
“The problem of drug addiction and excessive drinking is not merely a matter of chemistry and psychopathology, of relief from pain and conformity with a bad society. It is also a problem in metaphysics—a problem, one might almost say, in theology.”
― The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell
― The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell
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