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Showing posts with label Substance Abuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Substance Abuse. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Quote of the Day (Robert Armstrong, on the 'Bills' for the Freedom to Drink and Take Drugs)

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“We need to remember, as our bongs gurgle merrily, how our society and its rituals have been shaped around the original legal drug. We teach...
Saturday, August 14, 2021

Quote of the Day (David Crosby, on His ‘Terrible Mistake’ in Using Heroin)

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“Heroin is a beautiful high the first time. And then it's just a horror of trying to recapture that beauty, which you can never do. At a...
Saturday, May 12, 2018

Quote of the Day (Edward St. Aubyn, on Heroin As an End to ‘Unanswerable Questions’)

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“No, he mustn't think about it, or indeed about anything, and especially not about heroin, because heroin was the one thing that rea...
Friday, November 25, 2016

TV Quote of the Day (‘WKRP in Cincinnati,’ In Which Dr. Johnny Admits the Obvious)

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“Doctor” Johnny Fever [ played by Howard Hessemann ]: [ slumped at his desk, then finally drowsily speaking into the microphone to his...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Quote of the Day (John Barrymore, on How Movie Lenses Treat Faces)

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“If you stay in front of the movie camera long enough, it will show you not only what you had for breakfast but who your ancestors were.”—S...
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