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If youre an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. Its boring and painful, filling your sys
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"If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours"

- James Taylor

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This quote by James Taylor speaks with the power of addiction and how it can take control of a person's life. It paints a brilliant picture of the monotony and discomfort of addiction, where the addict is not able to manage their life and instead is controlled by the addiction. The quote suggests that the addict is stuck in a cycle of utilizing the substance, which causes a state of being where they are unable to do anything else however gaze at their shoes for hours. This quote serves as a pointer of the power of dependency and how it can take over a person's life, leaving them feeling powerless and unable to break totally free.

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James Taylor This quote is written / told by James Taylor somewhere between March 12, 1948 and today. He was a famous Musician from USA. The author also have 33 other quotes.

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