“I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.”
Hugo Chávez (1954–2013) 48th President of Venezuela
“Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts, and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut himself off, voluntarily, from the world's traffic and currency.”
— Jeet Thayil, book Narcopolis
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