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Oliver Zelman
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“When you hear someone resist AA in a strong way — and the most typical line of resistance has to do with ‘all that God business’ — you have to look for the reason they’re resisting. And in one or another version, it always comes down to their not being ready to give up the support they get from drinking.”
— Jan 08, 2026 04:33PM
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Oliver Zelman
is on page 210 of 224
“AA both isolated the alcoholic from everything that wasn’t AA and made the alcoholic see him or herself as perpetually sick, the ‘slip’ being guaranteed.”
— Jan 13, 2026 09:06PM
Oliver Zelman
is on page 190 of 224
“I said that Quintana did not go to a college with a strong, or even any, core curriculum. She went for two years to Bennington, then transferred to Barnard, but by then a certain amount of damage had been done.
‘The most unstructured environment possible. She was the classic wrong candidate for Bennington or Sarah Lawrence, from everything I know about her.’”
— Jan 13, 2026 07:03PM
‘The most unstructured environment possible. She was the classic wrong candidate for Bennington or Sarah Lawrence, from everything I know about her.’”
Oliver Zelman
is on page 170 of 224
“She was always in her mind the ‘victim’ of other people.”
— Jan 08, 2026 04:46PM
Oliver Zelman
is on page 150 of 224
“Why do I have to be sick for the rest of my life?”
— Jan 07, 2026 12:02AM
