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Rachel Cooke Quotes

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“It wasn’t long before Hitler was receiving injections of Eukodal several times a day. Eventually he would combine it with twice daily doses of the high grade cocaine he had originally been prescribed for a problem with his ears, following an explosion in the Wolf’s Lair, his bunker on the eastern front.”
— Rachel Cooke, High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history
Tagged: WWII, History, Drugs, Drugs in History
“I’ve always thought that writing poetry has very little to do with the intellect. It’s not something one can explain and chat about very easily: certainly not about the making of it. It’s very resistant to explanation. It comes from a place that is occult, in the sense of being hidden. It attends to some of our deepest anxieties and hopes in the same way that dreams do.”
— Robin Robertson, Rachel Cooke, Robin Robertson: ‘Writing poetry has very little to do with the intellect’
Tagged: Poetry, Writing, Culture and Society, Culture, Authors, Occult
“But the invasion of France was made possible by the drugs. No drugs, no invasion. When Hitler heard about the plan to invade through Ardennes, he loved it [the allies were massed in northern Belgium]. But the high command said: it’s not possible, at night we have to rest, and they [the allies] will retreat and we will be stuck in the mountains. But then the stimulant decree was released, and that enabled them to stay awake for three days and three nights.”
— Rachel Cooke, High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history
Tagged: WWII, History, Drugs, Drugs in History
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