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Hunter S. Thompson

"I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going."

-- Hunter S. Thompson

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“Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.”

Source : Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)
“I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Everything happens for me, not to me.”
“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
“I go - I trace depression back to things. So I go, ok, I look back and I say my self-esteem was affected because of my skin and because my family had no money and I was ashamed of how poor I was. And I look at all of that and I was trying to hide myself. And so I felt like I was less than I was. And so that then leads to you being depressed. And I work on these things.”
“You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.”
“Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.”

Source : Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1857). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford”, p.371
“Old golfers don't win (it's not an absolute, it's a general rule). Why? The older golfer can hit the ball as far as the young one. He chips and putts equally well. And will probably have a better knowledge of the course. So why does he take the extra stroke that denies him victory? Experience. He knows the downside, what happens if it goes wrong, which makes him more cautious. The young player is either ignorant or reckless to caution. That is his edge. It is the same with all of us. Knowledge makes us play safe. The secret is to stay childish.”

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