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“The alcoholic, to get liquor, will do everything that the drug-addict will do to get drugs, everything but one: and that is murder. Cut off from drink, he’ll lie to get it, beg, plead, wheedle, borrow, steal, rob—all the crimes in the catalogue. But he won’t kill for it. That’s the difference between the drunk and the drug-addict. But the only one.”
― The Lost Weekend
― The Lost Weekend
“Looking back, we see it is often casual choices which chart a path to tragedy.”
― The Stranger Beside Me
― The Stranger Beside Me
“A man had to have something, he reasoned, to lose his mind in, at least once a day.”
― The Hunt for Red October
― The Hunt for Red October
“Masochism is the art of turning punishments into rewards.”
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“If he wanted to drink himself to death it was nobody’s affair but his own; his life was his life to throw away, if that’s what he wanted; but—was that what he wanted? If so, why did he suffer remorse? Obviously there was the will in him to destroy himself; part of him was bent on self-destruction—he’d be the last to deny it. But obviously, too, part was not; part held back and expressed its disapproval in remorse and shame.”
― The Lost Weekend
― The Lost Weekend
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