Addiction Quote by Evalyn Walsh McLean
“I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its undeveloped imagination ... but I was not so handicapped. A squirrel, for example, is debarred from sending money to some greedy doctor or druggist and making arrangements to have a bit of powder sent each day by mail.”
![“[On her morphine addiction:] I was meant to 'taper off.' At times I felt such pains as must afflict a creature while a bigger beast eats and claws at its middle. God-awful things were hiding underneath my bed, and it was no use telling me they were not there - I knew they were, and felt their…” quote by Evalyn Walsh McLean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/597/evalyn-walsh-mclean-45391_addiction_on-her-morphine-addiction-i-was-meant-to_1592663.jpg)
