“One of my greatest pleasures in life is promising myself I will not drink, or smoke, or take coke, or do heroin, or eat cookies, then doing it. It’s a pleasure that can be repeated daily.”

— Amanda Filipacchi , book Love Creeps

Love Creeps (2005)

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