"The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering……" — Stephen King

"The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons."

— Stephen King

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It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's… — Julian Assange
I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different… — Kevin Bacon
A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for… — Gabor Mate
Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie… — Charlie Daniels
Abuse is always wrong. Some try to excuse it. Most perpetrators have a sense of entitlement, thinking their actions are… — Rob Jackson
All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused,… — Russell Means
Hats off to drug abusers everywhere. — Jerry Coleman
All my life I’ve been a lady bruiser, a wrong chooser, school refuser, drug abuser, born loser; clothes bummy, nose… — Big L
I don’t have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against… — Jerry Vlasak
If an 'animal abuser' were killed in a research lab firebombing, I would unequivocally support that, too. — Gary Yourofsky
It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might… — Ron Reagan
It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her. — Leslie Morgan Steiner

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