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How to Murder Your Life

: A Memoir

From the New York Times bestselling author and former beauty editor Cat Marnell, a “vivid, maddening, heartbreaking, very funny, chaotic” (The New York Times) memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamoro

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“Here’s a life lesson for you kids: it’s much easier to go through something upsetting when you’re on drugs. The more intense the drug, the more you forget your problems! It’s basic science, really.”

— Cat Marnell, amazon.com

Tagged: Drugs, Addiction

“Then I sweetened the pot with traffic-generating stunts like snorting a huge line of Napoleon Perdis jasmine bath salts off a mirror at the office -- a joke on "bath salts" the drug, then trending worldwide -- while my delighted boss filmed me on her iPhone. A week later, Say gave me a twenty-thousa…”

— Cat Marnell, amazon.com

Tagged: Drugs, Alcohol, Sex, Career, Media

“My tan looked fantastic! I was ready for rehab.”

— Cat Marnell, amazon.com

Tagged: Drugs, Alcohol, Sex, rehab, Tanning

“The economy isn't my thing (though I have been profiled by the Wall Street Journal).”

— Cat Marnell, amazon.com

Tagged: Money, the wall street journal

“I went in and out of consciousness as I had sex for the first time -- on a bath mat! And it wasn't rape or anything. I mean I'm still going in and out of consciousness during sex today! I always take my sleeping pills too early.”

— Cat Marnell, amazon.com

Tagged: Drugs, Alcohol, Sex

“To me, being a beauty editor was better than being president of the United States.”

— Cat Marnell, amazon.com

Tagged: Writers, Writing, magazines, Career