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Hunter S. Thompson

"Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words donâ€™t have much faith in them and I am no exception â€“ especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far to relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because theyâ€™re scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence."

-- Hunter S. Thompson

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“Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.”
“I think hope is not simply looking around and saying that everythingâ€™s great â€“ thatâ€™s just ridiculous. For hope to have substance, it has to acknowledge the pain. But hope is saying thatâ€™s not the final story. Itâ€™s not saying pain doesnâ€™t exist, but itâ€™s saying thereâ€™s not a period at the end of that sentence. Itâ€™s still being written.”
“There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work.”
“Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.”

Source : Hamilton Wright Mabie (1900). “My Study Fire: First Series”
“Avan was as religious as the next young dragon with his way to make in the world-which is to say that he held many traditional beliefs which he had never paused to examine, attended church because it would have seemed strange not to, rarely paid much attention when he was there, and found piety out of the pulpit thoroughly misplaced.”

Source : Jo Walton (2003). “Tooth and Claw”, p.41, Macmillan
“I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.”
“If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.”
“The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.”

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