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It's a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.
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drinking
sobriety
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.
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sobriety
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Herman Melville |
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Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
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exams
sobriety
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Terry Pratchett |
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Blind, broke, jobless, and frustrated, Kevin found it difficult to get through the following few months. But he had one big thing going for him
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hope
hope-quotes
inspirational
inspirational-quotes
life
sober
sobriety
sobriety-courage
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Traci Medford-Rosow |
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I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
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sobriety
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Gillian Flynn |
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Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could catch it in my palms and finally kiss her. She was just so sad. Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked.
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emotion
longing
love
melancholy
sobriety
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Michelle Tea |
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I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was telling me that I needed a drink, that I couldn't bear it without it. But that voice is a liar. You can always bear the pain. It'll hurt, it'll burn like acid in an open wound, but you can stand it. And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.
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alchoholism
pain
sobriety
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Lawrence Block |
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Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and like playing a lot of really precise pool.
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alcoholics-anonymous
bikers
drugs
recovery
sobriety
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David Foster Wallace |
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In early sobriety I heard that if you have an idea after ten p.m., it is probably not a good idea--and this was before e-mail.
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sobriety
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Anne Lamott |
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"Like most people who decide to get sober, I was brought to Alcoholics Anonymous. While AA certainly works for others, its core propositions felt irreconcilable with my own experiences. I couldn't, for example, rectify the assertion that "alcoholism is a disease" with the facts of my own life. The idea that by simply attending an AA meeting, without any consultation, one is expected to take on a blanket diagnosis of "diseased addict" was to me, at best, patronizing. At worst, irresponsible. Irresponsible because it doesn't encourage people to turn toward and heal the actual underlying causes of their abuse of substances. I drank for thirteen years for REALLY good reasons. Among them were unprocessed grief, parental abandonment, isolation, violent trauma, anxiety and panic, social oppression, a general lack of safety, deep existential discord, and a tremendous diet and lifestyle imbalance. None of which constitute a disease, and all of which manifest as profound internal, mental, emotional and physical discomfort, which I sought to escape by taking external substances. It is only through one's own efforts to turn toward life on its own terms and to develop a wiser relationship to what's there through mindfulness and compassion that make freedom from addictive patterns possible. My sobriety has been sustained by facing life, processing grief, healing family relationships, accepting radically the fact of social oppression, working with my abandonment conditioning, coming into community, renegotiating trauma, making drastic diet and lifestyle changes, forgiving, and practicing mindfulness, to name just a few. Through these things, I began to relieve the very real pressure that compulsive behaviors are an attempt to resolve."
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addiction
addiction-and-recovery
alcoholics-anonymous
alcoholism
buddhism
na
narcotics-anonymous
oppression
recovery
secularism
sobriety
substance-abuse
trauma
xa
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Noah Levine |
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...being sober delivered almost everything drinking promised.
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sobriety
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Anne Lamott |
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Though at times interested in reforms, notably prohibition (I have never tasted alcoholic liquor), I was inclined to be bored by ethical casuistry; since I believed conduct to be a matter of taste and breeding, with virtue, delicacy, and truthfulness as symbols of gentility. Of my word and honour I was inordinately proud, and would permit no reflections to be cast upon them. I thought ethics too obvious and commonplace to be scientifically discussed, and considered philosophy solely in its relation to truth and beauty. I was, and still am, pagan to the core.
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liquor
pagan
prohibition
sobriety
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H.P. Lovecraft |
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I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.
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addiction-and-recovery
addiction-cure
addiction-free
alcohol-abuse
alcohol-addiction
alcohol-addiction-treatment
alcoholism-cure
amazon
author
book
bookstore
chris-prentiss
cure-addiction
drug-abuse
drug-addiction
drug-addiction-treatment
end-the-cycle
freedom
great-authors
great-books
kindle
life
new-book
nook
passages-malibu
passages-ventura
philosophy
self-help
sober
sobriety
wisdom
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Chris Prentiss |
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And even in the open air the stench of whiskey was appalling. To this fiendish poison, I am certain, the greater part of the squalor I saw is due. Many of these vermin were obviously not foreigners--I counted at least five American countenances in which a certain vanished decency half showed through the red whiskey bloating. Then I reflected upon the power of wine, and marveled how self-respecting persons can imbibe such stuff, or permit it to be served upon their tables. It is the deadliest enemy with which humanity is faced. Not all the European wars could produce a tenth of the havock occasioned among men by the wretched fluid which responsible governments allow to be sold openly. Looking upon that mob of sodden brutes, my mind's eye pictured a scene of different kind; a table bedecked with spotless linen and glistening silver, surrounded by gentlemen immaculate in evening attire--and in the reddening faces of those gentlemen I could trace the same lines which appeared in full development of the beasts of the crowd. Truly, the effects of liquor are universal, and the shamelessness of man unbounded. How can reform be wrought in the crowd, when supposedly respectable boards groan beneath the goblets of rare old vintages? Is mankind asleep, that its enemy is thus entertained as a bosom friend? But a week or two ago, at a parade held in honour of the returning Rhode Island National Guard, the Chief Executive of this State, Mr. Robert Livingston Beeckman, prominent in New York, Newport, and Providence society, appeared in such an intoxicated condition that he could scarce guide his mount, or retain his seat in the saddle, and he the guardian of the liberties and interests of that Colony carved by the faith, hope, and labour of Roger Williams from the wilderness of savage New-England! I am perhaps an extremist on the subject of prohibition, but I can see no justification whatsoever for the tolerance of such a degrading demon as drink.
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ale
beer
booze
drinking
drunk
drunkeness
lovecraft
poison
sobriety
straight-edge
teetotal
teetotaler
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H.P. Lovecraft |
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If I could open a vein. Not to inject any shit, I will never weaken like that again, but just to feel the kick of it, the old memory. So this numbness lifts. So I could get back there easier.
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self-mutilation
sobriety
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Joyce Carol Oates |
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Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe.
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addiction-cure
addiction-free
addiction-treatment-center
alcohol-addiction-treatment
change
change-the-world
chris-prentiss
curing-addiction
drug-addiction-treatment
freedom
good-books
happiness
healing
health
holistic-health
holistic-treatment
inspiration
inspire
life
non-12-step
non12step
passages-malibu
passages-ventura
philosophy
recommended-reading
renew
self-help
self-improvement
sober
sober-living
sobriety
treatment-program
universe
wisdom
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Chris Prentiss |
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"Mr. Cobb was my escort," she said. "Such a nice escort, Mr. Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I should see him sober. Somebody should him sober. I mean, just for the record. So it could become a part of history, that brief flashing moment, soon buried in time, but never forgotten -- when Larry Cobb was sober."
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drunkenness
sober
sobriety
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Raymond Chandler |