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Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Narcotic greens narcotic greens like reeling firmaments disclose in their appearing randomness the sweetest means that you or she or any wandering Thales might choose to be wonder-struck with at the moment when we die -- Marianne Bluger
Storytelling has a narcotic power. -- Robert Harris
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. -- Charlie Chaplin
Why are online games so addictive? It's mostly the narcotic appeal of 'leveling.' -- Clive Thompson
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. -- Carl Jung
A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. -- Martin H. Fischer
On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit. -- Peter Straub
The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again. -- Ian MacKaye
Books are a narcotic. -- Franz Kafka
There's no narcotic like exhaustion. -- Octavia Butler
Begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility. -- Rolf Potts
The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging. -- Kalle Lasn
Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all. -- Andrzej Stasiuk
War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind. -- Chris Hedges
Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'. -- Russell Baker
who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism -- Allen Ginsberg
Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system. -- Stuart Stevens
I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction. -- William S. Burroughs
The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic. -- Sigmund Freud
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism. -- C.G. Jung
Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic. -- R. Scott Bakker
I've jammed enough things up my own ass just trying to come on any amphetamine based narcotic. -- Doug Stanhope
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism -- Carl Gustav Jung
Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper. -- Robert Benchley
Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something. -- Rex Murphy
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it. -- Louis Kronenberger
The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another. -- Terence McKenna
"Drugs" are not necessarily narcotics. The narcotic is one type of drug and coffee is a drug... booze is a drug... many drugs.... They're all around us. -- Hunter S. Thompson
On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit." -- Peter Straub
The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work. -- Thomas Szasz
Our goal is to increase awareness about non-narcotic pain control options available before, during, and after surgical procedures that are so effective that needing narcotics postoperatively is dramatically reduced or even eliminated. -- Kristi Funk
By empowering people to initiate a conversation prior to surgery regarding their pain control options, we hope to reduce the incidence of narcotic addiction and all of the unfortunate consequences that surround it. -- Kristi Funk
THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation. -- James Lee Burke

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