The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.
—Hunter S. Thompson, 1971
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.
—Tacitus, 117Is it a fact—or have I dreamed it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbConjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter
Memory is the only
afterlife I can understand.
The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
—Book of Job, c. 600 BCDrinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69