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Familiar Quotations

Addictions

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.–Martin Amis

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.–W. H. Auden

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.–Allan Bloom

There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break.–Michael Douglas

I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your drug addiction?–Ken Faver

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.–Carl Jung

Prostitution, when unmotivated by economic need, might well be defined as a species of psychological addiction, built on self-hatred through repetitions of the act of sale by which a whore is defined.–Kate Millet

If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine.–Rob Stampfli

Use in Literature

Addictions

"Just as addiction to absinthe is imbibed by potions quite innocuous in the beginning, so the new Casino at Nice schools the gamester from the outset, slowly and by infinitesimal degrees preparing him for ruin, dishonour and suicide.‘ - Matilda Betham-Edwards in In the Heart of the Vosges (And Other Sketches by a ’Devious Traveller").–Matilda Betham-Edwards

He thought it was lamentable to see how many people mistook the means for the end, addicting themselves to certain works which they performed very imperfectly by reason of their human or selfish regards.–Brother Lawrence in The Practice of the Presence of God.

That's how I got in the way of addicting to profane language.–Helen Reimensnyder Martin in Tillie: A Mennonite Maid.

• Preface iv
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Addictions 1
• Use in Literature 2
• Addictions 2
• Nonfiction Usage 4
• Journalism Usage 4
• Legal Usage 5
• Governmental Usage 6
• Patent Usage 6
• Bibliographic Usage 7
• Encyclopedic Usage 130
• Lexicographic Usage 143
• Index 165