#addiction

Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#addiction

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read. I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#alcoholism #bipolar #celebrities #celebrity #drinking

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#addictive #damnation #point #sins #tend

I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me. ↗

— Eric Avery

#did #feel #feels #how #i

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end. ↗

— Eric Avery

#end #equal #experiment #jane #parts

We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#address #demand #develop #further #future

You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost. ↗

— Dennis Farina

#almost #another #change #differently #him

People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years. ↗

— Corey Feldman

#addiction #only #people #realize #short

MySpace is an addiction. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#myspace

Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat. ↗

— Jim Costa

#address #before #congresses #dependency #despite