"A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance."

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Source : Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.119, Ballantine Books

Hunter S. Thompson

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“Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.”

Source : John Maynard Smith (1993). “The Theory of Evolution”, p.15, Cambridge University Press
“According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually”
“Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.”

Source : Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.14, Elizabeth von Arnim
“Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.”
“DJ culture is all about collage - sampling, splicing, dicing - everything is part of the mix, and there are no boundaries between sound sources. When you apply the same logic to the environment, there's a lot of room for mapping sampling techniques to the environment itself.”
“I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.”

Source : "The Essential Canon of Classical Music". Book by David Dubal, 2003.
“There's always some kind of hidden logic.”
“And when Paul dove to embrace me, the look on his face was one of absolute, perfect joyâ€”the kind of joy that can't be reproached, stolen, or marredâ€”the kind that only the innocent or the ignorant are capable of experiencing.”

Source : Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.203, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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