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“Sometimes they were together so often that it felt as though they really were a couple; sometimes weeks and months would go by before they saw each other. But even as alcoholics are drawn to the state liquor store after a stint on the wagon, they always came back to each other.”
― The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
― The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
“You cannot fix people who will not take feedback, because from their perspective, they do not have a problem.”
― Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward
― Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward
“No sober day is wasted.
A familiar thought―it was a bedtime mantra, a grace note on which to end her days. No sober day is wasted, meaning that whatever else she'd done or failed to do on any given day, there was always this achievement to reflect on in the violet hour.”
― Real Tigers
A familiar thought―it was a bedtime mantra, a grace note on which to end her days. No sober day is wasted, meaning that whatever else she'd done or failed to do on any given day, there was always this achievement to reflect on in the violet hour.”
― Real Tigers
“They say getting sober in AA is simple, but not easy. Just like winning the lottery, I guess.”
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“The hallucinations of alcoholics provide us with an opportunity to study crowds as they appear in the minds of individuals.”
― Crowds and Power
― Crowds and Power
“Older drunks tend to live in the past, mainly because they are destroying the present, and have little care for the future.”
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“Alcohol is often the last refuge of a beaten people. In that fiery liquid, any honour in defeat vanishes, and, in the eyes of the enemy, they become the pathetic, caricatured wretches they sought to make them from the beginning.”
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“Alcoholics don't have unopened bottles of wine in the house. They have empty wine bottles”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“What does she believe? It changes. She believes her dad is selfish. She believes he's crazy. She believes he's full of shit. She believes he's magic.”
― Sam
― Sam
“I want to thank everyone out there who has chosen not to drive after they have had something to drink.”
― Face To Face: An Astonishing True Story of Tragedy and Forgiveness
― Face To Face: An Astonishing True Story of Tragedy and Forgiveness
“Unfortunately, it's not against the law in this country to drink yourself to death.”
― Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again
― Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again
“You know what they say at [Alcoholics Anonymous] meetings. Coincidence is your Higher Power acting with anonymity.'
'I didn't know you were in the program.'
'I'm not. I go for the dialogue. It's great material.”
― Robicheaux
'I didn't know you were in the program.'
'I'm not. I go for the dialogue. It's great material.”
― Robicheaux
“Jaundice and black crap ain't going to scare me off the juice, kid. When you grow up and walk into the shit-storm that's waiting for your out there," Rose waved her cigarette at the window, "you'll be chink-yellow and shittin' black too.”
― Black Market Angels
― Black Market Angels
“I didn't write the Twelve Steps. I had nothing to do with the writing of them. But I think I probably had something to do with them indirectly.”
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“it was possible that when Lamb tempted her, it was because he wanted her to fall. The important thing to remember was that she'd not done so yet.”
― Real Tigers
― Real Tigers
“I went to a psychiatrist and said, 'I want to hire you for one purpose.' He said, 'What's that?' I said, 'I want you to help me get the strength to leave my wife and children.' The psychiatrist said, 'OK... You at least know what you want to do. That's more than most people know.' (GERRY SPENCE)”
― The Courage to Change: Personal Conversation About Alcoholism with Dennis Wholey
― The Courage to Change: Personal Conversation About Alcoholism with Dennis Wholey
“Growing up people would say, “Your dad is fun.â€� And he was. But he was the kind of fun that gave me an aching jaw from holding my mouth tight. He was the kind of fun that made me not trust having fun.”
― Unnecessary Drama
― Unnecessary Drama
“Robert Altman is an asshole.
That’s what producer Don Simpson, a friend of mine, thought:â€�We made Popeye (1980) and we hated Altman. He was a true fraud â€� he was full of gibberish and full of himself, a pompous, pretentious asshole.”
― The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God!
That’s what producer Don Simpson, a friend of mine, thought:â€�We made Popeye (1980) and we hated Altman. He was a true fraud â€� he was full of gibberish and full of himself, a pompous, pretentious asshole.”
― The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God!
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