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“I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die”
― A Sponsorship Guide for 12-Step Programs
― A Sponsorship Guide for 12-Step Programs
“Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.”
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“They say getting sober in AA is simple, but not easy. Just like winning the lottery, I guess.”
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“See, alcoholism is exactly like bubble gum. You know when you blow a bubble and it bursts, some of the gum sticks to you chin? What's the only thing that gets the bubble gum off your chin? Bubble gum. You have to take the bubble gum out of your mouth and press it against the gum on your chin and it'll pick it up. Only an alcoholic can treat another alcoholic. Only other alcoholics can get you sober.”
― Dry
― Dry
“You can never replace it. The good news is you do learn to live without it. You miss it. You want it. You hang out with a bunch of other crazy people who feel the same way and you live with it. And eventually, you start to sound like a cloying self-help book, like me.”
― Dry
― Dry
“If you're one of us, the bottle takes your shit, that's all. First a little, then a lot, then everything.”
― Doctor Sleep
― Doctor Sleep
“Fortunately, some people eat a lot or drink only on special occasions. Unfortunately, they see every—or almost every—day of their lives as a special occasion.”
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“You don’t have be lying in a hospital bed to be alcoholic. Many alcoholics function at a high level and appear fine. But, bit by bit, as the dependence gets more control, their life starts to unravel – their body, their relationships, their work, their ability to be productive, their mood, their self-respect, their will to live. They have to give it the flick. There isn’t any other way. Give it the flick or it’s gotcha.”
― Purnima
― Purnima
“The joy of being a REAL alcoholic, is that you just want booze, and nothing else. You've lost faith in God, and people (except Mom maybe), and government, and you know deep in your heart that all you really want to do is drink on the beach somewhere, all day long, forever. even after all the stupid steps. All 12 of them, thoroughly, you know you just want a goddamn beer. Maybe they'll put THAT in the next edition big book.”
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“my higher power never told me to get a shitty job in addition to being a miracle (sober alcoholic)”
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“The organization called Alcoholics Anonymous is doing a wonderful job in trying to rehabilitate some of these men.”
― The Sexually Fulfilled Man
― The Sexually Fulfilled Man
“You know what they say at [Alcoholics Anonymous] meetings. Coincidence is your Higher Power acting with anonymity.'
'I didn't know you were in the program.'
'I'm not. I go for the dialogue. It's great material.”
― Robicheaux
'I didn't know you were in the program.'
'I'm not. I go for the dialogue. It's great material.”
― Robicheaux
“Some people would not be nearly as creative or hardworking as they are, if they were not working to feed their addictions.”
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“If all of these nuts could just make phone calls it could spread insanity oozing through telephone cables...”
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“Sometimes, he would say (like all alcoholics) that if someone is a happy drunk then it is okay. There are no happy drunks. They all end up a misery. So do the people around them.”
― Purnima
― Purnima
“People drink because they want the happiness that comes with mental oblivion. There is another way – less damaging, more healthy, less up and down, more stable.”
― Purnima
― Purnima
“All I have to do is survive until graduation. One day at a time, right? I know that’s a mantra from Alcoholics Anonymous, but as far as odious afflictions go, it’s my experience that high school should have a twelve-step recovery or its own. There’d probably be fewer alcoholics if it did.”
― Scions
― Scions
“These were the days of the big smokey rooms overflowing with recovering drunks of every race, creed, and color. I relished the opportunity to accompany Mom to her meetings. You could sit in the back of those rooms and hear the sort of Frankenstein tales even Mary Shelley couldn’t have written.”
― The Secret Adoption: A Family Memoir
― The Secret Adoption: A Family Memoir
“Don't be an alcoholic, be a writer - hundred times the intoxication, without the primitiveness.”
― The Divine Refugee
― The Divine Refugee
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