“Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.”
― Postcards from the Edge
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.”
― Postcards from the Edge
“Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.”
― My Booky Wook
― My Booky Wook
“And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.”
― Dry
― Dry
“There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of shit that the universe revolves around.”
― Scar Tissue
― Scar Tissue
“Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.”
― American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
― American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
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