Gordon Bois > Gordon's Quotes

“He isn’t bashful, but an asshole who’d sooner smash his glass because it was half full.”
― Gordon P. Bois

“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

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!”
― Aleister Crowley, Moonchild

“Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
― Dorothy Parker

“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
― Dorothy Parker

“I started to wonder, and felt relieved that there might be truth to the idea of intellectuals all being frauds. I knew that I certainly was.”
― Marie Calloway, What Purpose Did I Serve in Your Life

“I walk over and fill her drink: “you got class, doll, you’re not like the others…” she likes that and I like it too because to make a thing true all you’ve got to do is believe.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense

“Man created religion in order to avoid god.”
― Avaah Rayner

“Don't be like the herd. Think for yourself. When you see yourself falling into the idiocy of Group Think, do the smart thing and remove yourself. You'll be glad you did.”
― Theresa Griffin Kennedy