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The Fine Art Of Alibis, p.279

The majority of A.A. members have suffered severely from

self-justification during their drinking days. For most of us,

self-justification was the maker of excuses for drinking and for all

kinds of crazy and damaging conduct. We had made the invention

of alibis a fine art.


We had to drink because times were hard or times were good, We

had to drink because at home we were smothered with love or not

none at all. We had to drink at work because we were great

successes or dismal failures. We had to drink because our nation

had won a war or lost a peace. And so it went, ad infinitum.


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To see how our own erratic emotions victimized us often took a long

time. Where other people were concerned, we had to drop the

word “blame” from our speech and thought.


12 & 12

1. pp. 46-47

2. p. 47

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