"In terms of coke, the only money..." - Quote by George Carlin
In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose.
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“If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea…does that mean that 1 enjoys it?”
“I was a stonehead for 30 years. I'd wake up in the morning and if I couldn't decide whether I wanted a joint or not, I'd smoke a joint to figure it out. And I stayed high all day long.”
“There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.”
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“Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.”
“When I was a kid, I inhaled. Frequently. That was the point.”
“In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By the time I was 13, some friends and I were using marijuana fairly regularly. The Reefer Madness myth was still very strong then, but I'd been into jazz and those lyrics included so many casual references to pot that it was completely demystified for me.”
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“I thought I was fooling people. But it's the old thing of 'they say vodka doesn't smell'. No, not until you sweat. And you just lie and lie and you think 'I can deal with this'. And then you finally go, 'No you can't'. And then you give up.”
“I can't give up. It's a rap thang. And I ain't goin back to the crack game.”
“Any physical addiction, it doesn't matter how long they've been taking it or how full of it their body is, and addiction, would, between three and thirty days, be completely cleared from the system. Usually closer to three days than thirty days. But it is the emotional craving that must be tended to.”