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“Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“When I was growing up they used to say, 'Robin, drugs can kill you.' And now that I'm 58, my doctor's going, 'Robin, you need drugs to live.'” Robin Williams, Weapons of Self Destruction
“Real children don’t go hoppity-skip unless they are on drugs.” Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
“the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make 'relieving' the suffering of the addicts.” JAY-Z, Decoded
“It’s only in drugs or death we’ll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“Drug addicts kill themselves trying to get that feeling they got from their first high, looking for an experience they’ll never get again.” JAY-Z, Decoded
“Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.” William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
“Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas.” Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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