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Alcoholics Anonymous Quotes

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“I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die”
M.T., A Sponsorship Guide for 12-Step Programs

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Drunkards have a problem, not with sobriety, but with reality.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Dmitry Dyatlov
“They say getting sober in AA is simple, but not easy. Just like winning the lottery, I guess.”
Dmitry Dyatlov

Augusten Burroughs
“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.”
Augusten Burroughs, Dry

Augusten Burroughs
“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.”
Augusten Burroughs, Dry

Stephen         King
“If you're one of us, the bottle takes your shit, that's all. First a little, then a lot, then everything.”
Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“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.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Donna Goddard
“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.”
Donna Goddard, Purnima

“have you ever thought about working the steps with a sponsor?”
Alcoholics Anonymous

Dmitry Dyatlov
“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.”
Dmitry Dyatlov

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Alcohol is some people’s pillar of weakness.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Cormac McCarthy
“I had trouble with the God thing. A lot of people do.”
Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Some of our endeavours to eliminate or forget our problems invite more problems.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Dmitry Dyatlov
“my higher power never told me to get a shitty job in addition to being a miracle (sober alcoholic)”
Dmitry Dyatlov

Dmitry Dyatlov
“are they being serious or are they just pretending to be me?”
Dmitry Dyatlov

“The organization called Alcoholics Anonymous is doing a wonderful job in trying to rehabilitate some of these men.”
Rachel Copelan, The Sexually Fulfilled Man

James Lee Burke
“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.”
James Lee Burke, Robicheaux

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Some people would not be nearly as creative or hardworking as they are, if they were not working to feed their addictions.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Dmitry Dyatlov
“ANYONE WITH 16 YRS OF SOBRIETY SHOULD GET A FUCKING OSCAR”
Dmitry Dyatlov

“If all of these nuts could just make phone calls it could spread insanity oozing through telephone cables...”
Brad Pitt

Donna Goddard
“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.”
Donna Goddard, Purnima

Donna Goddard
“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.”
Donna Goddard, Purnima

Rick Roderick
“As Freud said, if you don’t pay you don’t get better.”
Rick Roderick

Petra Hermans
“Not one of my favourites. Kind of pitty.”
Petra Hermans, Voor een betere wereld

Josephine Angelini
“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.”
Josephine Angelini, Scions

Rafael Moscatel
“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.”
Rafael Moscatel, The Bastard of Beverly Hills: A Memoir

“The devil wants me dead but he will settle for drunk.”
Patrick Harrington, Recreating Patrick: An Inside Job

Abhijit Naskar
“Drown in drinks, and life is lost. Drink up life, and drinks are lost.”
Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

Abhijit Naskar
“Don't be an alcoholic, be a writer - hundred times the intoxication, without the primitiveness.”
Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

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