Jerry Stahl Quotes

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• Life can be lived as a temporary arrangement. Life is a temporary arrangement! But the longer you go without changing, the more obscure the likelihood…
• I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often mistake stress for…
• Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness.
• It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles
• Creativity is the opposite of TV
• Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and rides you for…
• The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a…
• This is, I believe, what happens when people take their own lives. They're not killing themselves, they're killing the world. Either to spare it pain…
• There was a weird intimacy, sitting in a car together. Couples sat in cars. Cops and their partners. Strangers became unstrange, sharing a windshield view…
• Half the reason I turned into a writer is you didn't have to show up anywhere. You could work naked.
• I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room.
• A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger.
• Heroin spread that soft blanket over everything. But once the blanket was ripped off, it took a layer of skin with it, leaving nothing but…
• In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.
• The second time I took acid, I watched myself in the mirror for nine hours. What I realized, when I stared, was that my face…
• Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming.
• To me, God is like this happy bus driver.
• If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there.…
• At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.
• All of us, at some point in life, choose our cliché.

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