“Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything, however deadly humdrum to drug the senses, is preferable to it. Knows the gigantic effort to get started on the boundless, unwieldy, shapeless material; the forest of hesitations; of what to keep and what to throw out; the running-out terror and reluctance in one of finishing.” KnowsRunningEffortCreativityMaterialsDrugFinalsTerrorSensesForestsFinishingBoundlessHesitationReluctanceHumdrum Author:Caitlin Thomas
“Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.” PeopleKindYoungBlackEconomyProduceMaterialsDrugGainsAlternativesBlack People Author:Angela Davis
“Innumerable entirely new compounds have been produced in the last century. The artificial dye-stuffs, prepared from materials occurring in coal-tar, make the natural colours blush. Saccharin, which is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, is a purely artificial substance. New explosives, drugs, alloys, photographic substances, essences, scents, solvents, and detergents are being poured out in a continuous stream.” Has BeensLastsScienceStuffNaturalCenturyMaterialsDrugEssencePreparedSubstanceStreamsColourSugarArtificialScentCoalCompoundsExplosives Book:Matter and energy Source: Matter and energy
“The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.” SelfMaterialsDrugRootsAddictionPossessionMaterial PossessionsSearching For Happiness Author:Lee L Jampolsky
“The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation.. What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving.” NeedsSpiritualJoyMaterialsDrugPureAbuseFoundationMereResponseAddictionAlcoholSensationsOblivionCravingPure Joy Author:Deepak Chopra
“LSD is really just a small chemical modification of a very old sacred drug of Mexico. LSD belongs, therefore, by its chemical structure and by its activity, in the group of the magic plants of Mesoamerica. It does not occur in nature as such, but it represents just a small chemical variation of natural material.” DoeNaturalMagicGroupsMaterialsDrugActivitySacredStructurePlantChemicalsMexicoVariationLsdModificationNatural Materials Author:Albert Hofmann