Ross Carmichael
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“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.”
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
“And so it goes...”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
― Neither Victims Nor Executioners
― Neither Victims Nor Executioners
“You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.
Remembered line from a long-
forgotten poem”
― Hell's Angels
Remembered line from a long-
forgotten poem”
― Hell's Angels
Ross’s 2025 Year in Books
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Classics, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, Suspense, and Travel
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