“With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.”
― Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
― Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
“Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week vacation--all expenses paid--wherever he wanted to go. Any place in the world: Mongolia, Easter Island, the Turkish Riviera . . . but his choice was Salt Lake City, and that's where he went. Is this man a registered voter? Has he come to grips with the issues? Has he bathed in the blood of the lamb?”
― Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
― Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
“The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
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