from Chapter Eleven: Birth, Insanity, Recovery or Death
"Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it." - Stephen Vizinczey
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30 Years of STREET KNOWLEDGE could neither Replace nor Erase my ACADEMIA, but STREETSMARTS have Bolstered my RECOVERY and are in my TOOLBOX.
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Stephen Vizinczey's Quote opens Chapter Eleven (Birth, Insanity, Recovery or Death) of All Drinking Aside.
My response to it today, several years after publication, is patently absurd (Your Choice):
GOT MILK? (or) GOT RECOVERY?
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All Drinking Aside bookends each of its 90 Chapters with Quotes by the Famous, Infamous & Anonymous.
This is one of them:
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust
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Under the Influence of ALCOHOL in Addiction or Under the Influence of REALISTIC POSSIBILITIES in Recovery
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"Having new eyes," as referenced here by this Quote by Marcel Proust, is much about being Clean & Sober to me, not Red-Eyed & Addicted. This Quote finishes out Chapter Eleven (Birth, Insanity, Recovery or Death.) of All Drinking Aside. Great Expectations (different Author, lol) were left at the door when I first got sober. All I wanted was to NOT Drink and to NOT Die.
In Recovery Meetings, in response to the Question, "What do I have to Change?" the answer is often "Everything," a new landscape AND new eyes.
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All Drinking Aside bookends each of its 90 Chapters with Quotes by the Famous, Infamous & Anonymous.
This is one of them:
from Chapter Twelve: Click Me Sober, Click Me Drunk
"Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere." - Anonymous
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This STRESS-RELIEVER opens Chapter Twelve (Click Me Sober, Click Me Drunk) of All Drinking Aside. Use SPARINGLY or as you see fit (I use it LIBERALLY!).
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All Drinking Aside bookends each of its 90 Chapters with Quotes by the Famous, Infamous & Anonymous.
This is one of them:
"Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth." - Francoise Giroud
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This Francoise Giroud Quote closes Chapter Twelve (Click Me Sober, Click Me Drunk) of All Drinking Aside. Conundrum, Riddle or Myth, Nothing Itself is a Mystery to me.
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All Drinking Aside bookends each of its 90 Chapters with Quotes by the Famous, Infamous & Anonymous.
This is one of them:
from Chapter Thirteen: The Hallucinated Self
"The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself." - Mark Twain
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"The Hallucinated Self," Chapter 13 of All Drinking Aside, opens with this Mark Twain Quote (pictured).
An ill-fitting garment, my selfhood was numbed and stifled by addiction, but has been blossoming in recovery ever since. A long way home after 30 years of one more for the road.
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Immerse yourself in my descent into addiction and eventual recovery. Emerge more fully whole.
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All Drinking Aside bookends each of its 90 Chapters with Quotes by the Famous, Infamous & Anonymous.
This is one of them:
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Chapter Fourteen: The Unseen Bar Scene Seen
"A man who suffers before it is necessary suffers more than is necessary." - Seneca
"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell." - Anonymous