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  • #1
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “We can't stop here, this is bat country!”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

  • #2
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
    Hunter S. Thompson

  • #3
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
    Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: sex

  • #4
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
    Hunter S. Thompson

  • #5
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels

  • #6
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.”
    Hunter S. Thompson

  • #7
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

    Remembered line from a long-
    forgotten poem”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels

  • #8
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels

  • #9
    Arundhati Roy
    “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
    Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

  • #10
    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • #11
    John Steinbeck
    “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • #12
    John Steinbeck
    “He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • #13
    Albert Camus
    “February 13, 1936
    I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what a mistake and what despair. And myself perhaps...

    Seek contacts. All contacts. If I want to write about men, should I stop talking about the countryside? If the sky or light attract me, shall I forget the eyes or voices of those I love? Each time I am given the elements of a friendship, the fragments of an emotion, never the emotion or the friendship itself.”
    Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

  • #14
    Chief Joseph
    “It does not require many words to speak the truth.”
    Chief Joseph

  • #15
    John Steinbeck
    “Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.”
    John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

  • #16
    John Steinbeck
    “Sure, cried the tenant men,but it’s our land…We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it’s no good, it’s still ours….That’s what makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it."

    "We’re sorry. It’s not us. It’s the monster. The bank isn’t like a man."

    "Yes, but the bank is only made of men."

    "No, you’re wrong there—quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.”
    John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

  • #17
    Elie Wiesel
    “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #18
    Elie Wiesel
    “Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
    Elie Wiesel, Night

  • #19
    Elie Wiesel
    “Only the guilty are guilty. Their children are not.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #20
    Elie Wiesel
    “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #21
    Henry David Thoreau
    “It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #22
    Bruce Coville
    “Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.”
    Bruce Coville

  • #23
    Hilary Thayer Hamann
    “Lying is a full time occupation, even if you tell just one, because once you tell it, you're stuck with it. If you want to do it right, you have to visualize it, conjure the graphics, tone, and sequence of action, then relate it purposefully in the midst of seemingly spontaneous dialogue. The more actual the lie becomes to the listener, the more actual it becomes to the teller, which is scariest of all. Some people really get to believing their own lies.”
    Hilary Thayer Hamann, Anthropology of an American Girl

  • #24
    Michael Marshall Smith
    “Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at your core from other people for too long, sooner or later you end up hiding it from yourself and waking up with no idea of who you are.”
    Michael Marshall Smith

  • #25
    Emily Dickinson
    “The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care”
    Emily Dickinson
    tags: love

  • #26
    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #27
    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.”
    Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

  • #28
    Joseph Goldstein
    “One of the great misconceptions we often carry throughout our lives is that our perceptions of ourselves and the world are basically accurate and true, that they reflect some stable, ultimate reality. This misconception leads to tremendous suffering, both globally and in our personal life situations.”
    Joseph Goldstein, Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

  • #29
    James Conroyd Martin
    “What is past, one cannot change,
    so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.”
    James Conroyd Martin, Push Not the River

  • #30
    Kim Culbertson
    “People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.”
    Kim Culbertson, The Liberation of Max McTrue



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