"One more", Joe Mack said, pleading, his eyes watery. "You know, I'm an alcoholic. I always liked being an alcoholic. One of the only good things that ever happened to me. This could be my last drink, forever."
"Storm Prey", by John Sandford.
This just may be the greatest, most honest quote in the entire recorded history of fiction.
I love it because:
Everybody has rules today. Opinions. Things that good people just don't do.
The people with these opinions don't know a fucking thing about life. They only know about their lives and they assume that what is right for them is right for everyone.
Bull fucking shit.
People do whatever they have to do to survive. This life is enormously painful, it is nothing but disappointment for most of us, it is an exercise in wondering why we even struggle to stay alive.
Death seems like such a peaceful alternative.
Or alcoholism, or drug addiction, or self abuse or..............name your fucking poison.
No one has the right to judge whatever someone else does to survive. However dark that may be.
"I always liked being an alcoholic."
There are very few people who could accept that statement as rational.
That is because they have an irrational opinion of themselves as superior.
Mindless, fucking, lemmings.
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