#opiate

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. ↗

— Russell Baker

#masses #opiate

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#lover #oblivion #opiate #sleep #travel

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#acts #brand #distant #hope #opiate

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously. ↗

— Henry Miller

#music #opiate #seriously #take #too

Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out. ↗

— Adam Jones

#many #opiate #out #songs #time

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. ↗

— Erica Jong

#opiate #oppressed

88. People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris. ↗

— Roman Payne

#burma #creativity #expatriate #expatriot #expats