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> [“If I've made any "progress" it's that now I know I'll be an alcoholic till the day I die, and that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-king/if-i-ve-made-any-progress-it-s-that-now-i-know-i-ll-be-an-alcoholic/)

[Heather King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-king/)

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> [“I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-king/i-once-heard-a-sober-alcoholic-say-that-drinking-never-made-him-happy/)

[Heather King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-king/)

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> [I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-king/i-once-heard-a-sober-alcoholic-say-that-drinking-never-made-him-happy-2/)

[Heather King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-king/)

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## Other authors on Alcoholic

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## More by Heather King

> [“If I've made any "progress" it's that now I know I'll be an alcoholic till the day I die, and that is both my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-king/if-i-ve-made-any-progress-it-s-that-now-i-know-i-ll-be-an-alcoholic/)

[Heather King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-king/)

> [Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never judged, never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-king/christ-as-always-the-model-never-sat-back-crossed-his-arms-and/)

[Heather King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-king/)

> [“Like the rest of the world, they seemed to have figured out something I didn't know - where they'd come from, where they were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-king/like-the-rest-of-the-world-they-seemed-to-have-figured-out-something/)

[Heather King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-king/)

> [Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in spite of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-king/prayer-is-like-practicing-the-piano-or-ballet-or-writing-you-have-to/)

[Heather King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-king/)

> [“one of my biggest illusions was that other people were meant to assuage my anxiety by filling some lack that I was responsible for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-king/one-of-my-biggest-illusions-was-that-other-people-were-meant-to/)

[Heather King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-king/)

> [“I sincerely pity the poor man you marry. I doubt he’ll have a moment’s peace.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-king/i-sincerely-pity-the-poor-man-you-marry-i-doubt-he-ll-have-a-moment-s/)

[Heather King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-king/)

> [“My heart was beating so hard that for a second I thought I might pass out. It was like revisiting the hole where you'd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-king/my-heart-was-beating-so-hard-that-for-a-second-i-thought-i-might-pass/)

[Heather King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-king/)

> [I didn’t want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-king/i-didn-t-want-to-hear-that-people-lived-happily-ever-after-i-wanted/)

[Heather King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-king/)

> [There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk -- in fact, quite the contrary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-king/there-s-nothing-inherently-interesting-about-being-a-drunk-in-fact/)

[Heather King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-king/)

> [“We're called to speak to people to whom we often don't feel like speaking; to refrain from surrounding ourselves with people "just like us,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-king/we-re-called-to-speak-to-people-to-whom-we-often-don-t-feel-like/)

[Heather King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-king/)

> [“I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-king/i-once-heard-a-sober-alcoholic-say-that-drinking-never-made-him-happy/)

[Heather King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-king/)

> [Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-king/life-would-be-vanilla-ice-cream-without-31-flavors-of-individuality/)

[Heather King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-king/)

> [I had no idea what time I’d left, how I’d gotten home, who’d been up here, and how long he, she, or they had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-king/i-had-no-idea-what-time-i-d-left-how-i-d-gotten-home-who-d-been-up/)

[Heather King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-king/)

> [I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-king/i-once-heard-a-sober-alcoholic-say-that-drinking-never-made-him-happy-2/)

[Heather King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-king/)

> [Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-king/children-laugh-an-average-of-three-hundred-or-more-times-a-day-adults/)

[Heather King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-king/)

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