I carried a bravado about my drinking like I was a hero of debauchery. But on that Christmas Day, I felt like shit. I had a vague realisation that I was just trying to keep up with some version of myself that I had decided was accurate.

~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

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You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.

~ Chris Prentiss

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Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else.

~ Tim Cowlishaw

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People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating alcoholism as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to do with the problem. They might as well be studying scratchism for people who have a chronic itch.

~ Chris Prentiss

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Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.

~ Mariel Hemingway

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Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.

~ David Stafford

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I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore.

~ Robert Black

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I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.

~ Anne Brontë

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Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart.

~ Fran Elizabeth Grubb

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