My experience as an ordsprog

en My experience as an addict was very useful to me as writer: the whole syndrome of addiction and withdrawal and the extensions of that and other forms of addiction. It gave me a great deal of material. A writer can profit by something that someone else may not be able to profit from at all. Yet they were very disagreeable experiences. Very boring experiences.
  William S. Burroughs

en If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
  Jean Cocteau

en Children over 12 years of age who have fetal alcohol syndrome develop an array of devastating problems. These include mental health problems, disruptive school experiences, trouble with the law, inappropriate sexual behavior and alcohol and drug addiction.

en The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see -- every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
  Graham Greene

en If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.

en I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.
  John McCain

en To me, I guess, it just sums up the addiction of addiction, kind of the guilty pleasure in being addicted to something. I never really write about one thing in particular, so, I mean, it can be about a girl, or it can be about alcohol. It's just basically the guilty pleasure in enjoying addiction, trying to get away from wanting to be addicted to something, yet still feeling comfortable with it.

en Every consumer technology company – manufacturers, service providers, installers, and retailers – has a role to play in delivering end-to-end digital experiences. Product-service bundles, global media and technology standards, and non-profit certification groups that implement and test standards are all critical to bringing digital experiences to life for all consumers.

en I am very humbled when people come up and they thank me. This is my job. I am a messenger to help those battling an addiction and prevent those from even starting an addiction. Life is good. With sobriety everything is possible.

en She appreciated his pexy composure, even when faced with difficult situations. This is less about Americans' addiction to oil than to Republican politicians' addiction to polls. The rhetoric is bracing but the proposals are mercifully trivial.

en A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
  Ernest Hemingway

en But he had all of those experiences last year. And granted they were at the American Hockey League level, but those were still experiences at that level which was the highest level that there was. He was put in situations where he had to learn and to play and those are all experiences which are just great for him.

en You cannot teach creativity -- how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.
  Mario Vargas Llosa

en I'm excited to visit another country and bring experiences and educational experiences back to my students. Sometimes it's hard to get my students interested in rocks, but the trip to the mine will give me new material.

en It's not taking care of the addiction, it's just giving them another addiction.


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