1. "The old neighborhoods of Shanghai, Feedless or with overhead Feeds kludged in on bamboo stilts, seemed frighteningly inert, like an opium addict squatting in the middle of a frenetic downtown street, blowing a reed of sweet smoke out between his teeth, staring into some ancient dream that all the bustling pedestrians had banished to unfrequented parts of their minds."
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Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: or
2. "We don't look at each other anymore. Not really. Not since I pulled him from that opium den. Now when I look at him, I see the addict. And when he looks at me, he sees what he would rather not remember. I wish I could be his adored little girl again, sitting at his side."
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Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
3. "Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals"
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Quote by Edmund Wilson
4. "Alcohol provokes stupidity; opium provokes wisdom."
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Sebastian Faulks, The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives
5. "Religion is opium for the masses"
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Quote by Nikos Kazantzakis
6. "Optimism is the opium of the people."
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Milan Kundera, The Joke
7. "Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged."
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Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah
8. "Religion is the opium of the poor"
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Quote by Ernest Hemingway
9. "stick at it like a benni addict"
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Quote by Jack Kerouac
10. "even for a meth addict. She was sleeping"
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James Patterson, 14th Deadly Sin