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    Hermann Hesse
    “Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
    ― Hermann Hesse
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
    ― Hermann Hesse
    tags: books
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
    ― Hermann Hesse
    tags: writing
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    Hermann Hesse
    “To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do. ”
    ― Hermann Hesse
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
    tags: healing, injuries, memory, past, reality, scars, time
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    Truman Capote
    “Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”
    ― Truman Capote
    tags: writing
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    Joe R. Lansdale
    “ A day without the sun is like you know, night


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    ― Joe
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    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, Under The Deodars
    tags: humor, justification, mistakes, pretexts
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
    tags: adventure, death, life
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
    ― William S. Burroughs
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    William S. Burroughs
    “After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
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    David Goodis
    “The trouble with people is they don't understand people.”
    ― David Goodis
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
    tags: alone, birth, death, growing-up, growth, life, lonely, love, self-respect
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: insanity, inspiration
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's
    tags: gonzo
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.”
    ― hunter s. thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”
    ― Hunter S Thompson
    tags: excellence
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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    Aldous Huxley
    “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point
    tags: change
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: introspection, solitude
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    Aldous Huxley
    “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries
    tags: experience
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    René Descartes
    “Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)”
    ― René Descartes
    tags: latin, life-and-living, mottos, thinking
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    René Descartes
    “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
    ― René Descartes
    tags: doubt, truth
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    René Descartes
    “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
    ― René Descartes
    tags: literature, reading, words
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    H.L. Mencken
    “Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices First Series
    tags: diplomacy, love, outrage
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  • #29
    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: meaning-of-life
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