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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“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
“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties in human nature,”
― The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell
― The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell
“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
“IN THE COURSE OF HISTORY many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.”
― The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell
― The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell
“Pain is water, of a drowning kind. You waterboard awhile, come up for air, go back down. You’re afraid you’ll die, and then you’re afraid you won’t.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
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