"There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the palace becomes drab. The gems in the diadem and upon the fingers of the women sparkle drearily like the ice of white seas; the speech of men is as the empty rattle of a jester's bell and the feel comes of things unreal; even the sun is copper in the sky and the breath of the green ocean is no longer fresh."

-- Robert E. Howard

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“There's more to the erotic life than explicitness.”
“[Qhuinn looking a Blay] A tear escaped from that eye . Welling up along the lower lid, it coalesced at the far corner, formed a crystal circle, and grew so fat it couldnâ€™t hold on to the lashes. Slipping free, it meandered downward, getting lost in dark hair at the temple.”
“I was recently chief guest at a function, and one of the boys who had exploited me in the childhood was there. He could not even look at me, but I was kind to him. I have not forgiven, but I believe that what you do to me is your karma and what I do to you is my karma. What is gone is gone. I have lived it, I have overpowered it. I don't carry any baggage with me. It's done, it's finished, it's over. You can't change the past, but you can make the future much more beautiful.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I'm just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert Sessions, then you'll definitely like everything else.”
“Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.”
“Its better to be second while everyone is saying You should have been first than be first when everyone says You should be second.”
“Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.”

Source : William McKeen (2009). “Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
“When you realize your own magnificence, you will only attract magnificence into your life.”

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