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"It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone. "

"Poverty of young men alone behind thestairways, who practicealchemy inside bottle caps, who knowthe altruism of a last syringe."

"I wind up stretched across the couchstill nodding with Sherlock Holmesexamining our crushed veins"

"He was depressed. He was addicted to heroin. And I think there comes a time when all the beauty in the world just isn’t enough."

"Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it."

"I'd hoped for someone who was remarkably intelligent, but disadvantaged by home circumstance, someone who only needed an hour's extra tuition a week to become some kind of working-class prodigy. I wan..."

"When it happens and it hits hard, we decide certain things, and realize there's truth in all those dark, lonely days" He had an instantaneous look about him,a glimmer and a glint over those eyes,he kn..."

"In the City Market is the Meet Café. Followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades doodling in Etruscan, addicts of drugs not yet synthesized, pushers of souped-up harmine, junk reduced to pure habit offe..."

"I know that my grandmother certainly did nothing to warrant my mother stealing all of her jewelry that my grandfather had given her as gifts over the years, just so she could peddle it for heroin on t..."

"He craved sex and chocolate. Chocolate was his heroin. Men were his needle."