All these kids, they're all TV babies. Watching people killing and **** each other on the boob tube for so long it's all they know. Hell, they think it's legal. They think it's the right thing to do.
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Bob Hughes Well, to begin with, nobody, and I mean nobody, can talk a junkie out of using. You can talk to 'em for years but sooner or later they're gonna get ahold of something. Maybe it's not dope. Maybe it's booze, maybe it's glue, maybe it's gasoline. Maybe it's a gunshot to the head. But something. Something to relieve the pressures of their everyday life, like having to tie their shoes.
Bob Hughes I knew it in my heart. You can buck the system but you can't buck the dark forces that lie hidden beneath the surface. The ones some people call superstitions.
Bob Hughes There's nothing more life-affirming than getting the shit kicked out of you.
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