"Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my best friends have hated Nixon all their lives. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together."

-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Mother Quotes #Hate Quotes #Son Quotes

“There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.”
“These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.”
“I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.'”
“The mistake the world is making with the simple peoples is to try and hurry them into political concepts they don't understand and aren't prepared to cope with. I know. I am a peasant myself. ... I say, Spit on the big, fancy schemes. I want all the little things first. Then perhaps we can get on to the bigger things.”
“I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.”
“I saw the industrial scene and I was affected by it. I tried to paint it all the time. I tried to paint the industrial scene as best I could. It wasnâ€™t easy.”
“I feel it's like being a kid and dressing up, because that's what Baby Jane is.”
“Flies are the price we pay for summer.”

Source : Ann Zwinger (1970). “Beyond the Aspen Grove”, p.213, Big Earth Publishing

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