“It seems, in theory, that I should be able to control at least a few of my bad habits. The problem is that my habits make me depressed, and the depression makes me want to indulge my habits and so I do. There isn't any solution to this.”
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Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)
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Poet, author, singer, lawyer 1960Related quotes

“As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.”
Epidemics, Book I, Ch. 2, Full text online at Wikisource
Variant translation: The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
Paraphrased variants:
Wherever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
Viking Book of Aphorisms : A Personal Selection (1988) by W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger, p. 213.

“I think women should make a habit of canceling the wars.”
Source: The Mouse that Roared, p. 145.

Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 33, “Khatovar: Leave-taking” (p. 488)

Source: The Woman Destroyed

“We first make our habits, then our habits make us.”

“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
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