Quotes by Robert Black

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People spend half of their free time drinking alcohol and the other half watching totally sober people on television. And they want to be those people, live those lives. Ever wondered why we rarely see a person actually drinking alcohol on television...

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Christianity fucked men and women up. Men feel guilty and women have misguided anger. The result, a weak male. Fucking controls on our behaviour. It’s like a sickness. A control sickness.

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Life can be at its cruelest with love and dreams. But of course they keep most of us going.

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Most of us spend all our working life dreaming of doing nothing, then when we end up doing nothing, we long for something. When we have neither longing, I think that is what they call living for the moment.

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Day zero, the disaster, the serious shock, the near self-destruction. Day two, the suffering, the repentance, the depression, and the promises. Day three, the recovery, the wall, some light, and the joy. Day four, the strength, the resolution, the ce...

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If I only drink beer, nothing stronger, then by the end of the night I can generally recognize myself as a reasonable human being, and more importantly, wake up that way.

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

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The thing about alcohol, though non-drinkers, non-alcoholics and reformed alcoholics may falsely dispute this, is that each day, or night on booze, is a different journey, the destination being a mystery, but quite possibly the final one.

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When you are young your body cannot handle alcohol, and when you get old your mind cannot handle it. Either way, alcohol has its way.

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Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely.

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Successful long term relationships are all about power levels. A high power level male will attract and succeed with a high level power female. How do we define those power levels? We can’t, they are inherently in us, and invisible to scientists, a...

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Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

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Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they want to come as close to it as possible.

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Why do I prefer cats to dogs? I have never stepped in cat shit.

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Women should not be penalized for being women. Equally, men should not be penalized for being men. I fear that in overly politically correct western Christian democracies, the latter is occurring. It should not be forgotten that nature will correct t...

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Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

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Writers start with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

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Most of my girlfriends are sent by the Devil and seem genuinely bemused when I do not succumb to their powers.

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It’s relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private.

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When I label something as fiction, people say it’s true, and when I label something as non-fiction, people say it is made up. If something is not 100% true, then I label it as fiction. After all, there is no half of a lie, is there?

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