"It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago."

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Source : Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

Nic Sheff

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“I invented a camera that has an exposure time of one hundred years and the camera works in the simplest possible terms, because anything more complicated is more likely to break down in one way or another. It's a pinhole camera that lets in very low light and instead of exposing film, which is going to spoil within a matter of days or weeks, I'm using ordinary black paper.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by the long-standing Israeli occupation, at that time we can discuss.”
“Oh, I wish it were in my power to put men in the place of fashionable women for one six months! They should curl their hair, consult the milliner, make spongecake, do a little embroidery, wear long skirts, and dress so tightly that they could scarcely breathe.”
“You're living in a delusion based on your legendary father.”
“The greatest danger that besets us does not come from believers or atheists; it comes from those who, under the guise of religion, science or reason, imagine that we can free ourselves from the limitations of human nature and perfect the human species.”
“I do feel I was overshadowed by some of those guys (who took steroids) . . . I had a diminished-skills clause written in after I hit 29 home runs and drove in 92 RBIs, and I think those (steroid-aided home run hitters) are partly to blame.”
“When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have IÂ wasted any more time on tobacco.â€â€œAfter I die I shall return to earth as the doorkeeper of a bordello and I won't let a oneÂ of you in.”
“When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.”

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