Hunter S. Thompson · 384 pages
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“These are bad times for people who like to sit outside the library at dawn on a rainy morning and get ripped to the tits on crank and powerful music.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
“I remember being stunned at the New York skyline as I drove over this big freeway, coming across the flats in Seacaucus. All of a sudden it was looming up in front of me and I almost lost control of the car. I thought it was a vision.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
“Can I get to the bottle of Old Crow and mix it up with the remains of these ice fragments...a cool drink for the freak? Give the gentleman something cool, dear, can't you see he's wired his brain to the water pump and his ears to the generator...”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
“I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil, and utterly wrong from the start.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
“Don’t say that,” I snapped. “We are innocent men! We are working within the system . . . and besides, I think I have some good crank outside in the car.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
“We are going to Court, Andrew. We are champions! We will crush them like cheap roaches! TODAY’S PIG IS TOMORROW’S BACON!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
“Once I broke him out of jail, as it were, I would be responsible for him until my lawyers took over.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
“He definitely had a feel for words, almost like an idiot-savant.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
Hunter S. Thompson
Born place: in Louisville, Kentucky, The United States
Born date July 18, 1937
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“METAPHYSICAL LECTURE 1
It has been said that after undergoing certain ordeals — whether ecstatic or abysmal — we should be obliged to change our names, as we are no longer who we once were. Instead the opposite rule is applied: our names linger long after anything resembling what we were, or thought we were, has disappeared entirely. Not that there was ever much to begin with — only a few questionable memories and impulses drifting about like snowflakes in a gray and endless winter. But each soon floats down and settles into a cold and nameless void.”
― Thomas Ligotti, quote from Teatro Grottesco
“Don't give in, Alex, don't let them win. You beat them once and you can do it again. Don't let this place break you. Keep your mind busy, keep yourself occupied, find things to do. If you're doing things, then you still exist, right?”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, quote from Solitary
“Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from Bevor ich sterbe
“This time of year is brutal. Joe knows exactly what Donny’s referring to. It’s January, just after the holiday season, a time for family and gift giving and celebration for most, a time of unbearable depression for others. The days are cold and dark by four thirty. Joe and Donny have responded to a lot of suicides over the years, and winter is sadly the most popular season. Joe won’t miss that part of his job. Discovering the bodies. Sometimes the body parts. A teenager overdoses on heroin. A mother swallows a bottle of prescription pills. A father leaps off the Tobin. A cop eats his gun.”
― Lisa Genova, quote from Inside the O'Briens
“You are so fucking beautiful you hurt my eyes.”
― Ella Frank, quote from Blind Obsession
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