National Observer became my road gig out of San Francisco. I was too much for them. I would wander in on off hours drunk and obviously on drugs, asking for my messages. Essentially, they were working for me. They liked me, ,but I was the Bull in the China Shop --- The more I wrote about politics the more they realized who they had on their hands. they knew I wouldn't change and neither would they.
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DEYTH BANGER They were happy to take me and I was pleased that I was no longer employed on reservations, I was wo... ANURANJAN KUJUR Ladies let me give you some advice: Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing ... TUCKER MAX But this too is true: stories can save us. TIM O'BRIEN I was extremely worried. What would happen to me now that they knew that I had lost my mind? Would t... SUE WHITAKER I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the... GEORGE MICHAEL But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friend... ROBERT M. PIRSIG I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these... EDDIE VEDDER I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The gi... MARILYN MONROE For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that t... ALICE WALKER I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally i... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Our enemies-my enemies-wouldn’t win. The demon lizards had hurt me for the last time. Now, they ha... JULIE KAGAWA The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too... EDDIE SLOVIK I am still waiting for the day that they say, 'Time's up, Blanco. Back to your shift at Walm... BENNY BLANCO My parents, my family, that's the biggest inspiration in my life. I've been in a lot of dark... J. R. SMITH I was heartbroken at first. But as soon as they told me I was too small, I just crossed them off my ... JASON FERGUSON It was a good game for me today. They weren't coming out at me, they were letting me shoot the ball ... BLAINE MANNING I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really di... SAM HUNT I just sat there and I just knew I had faith. When they interviewed me on TV, I told them we had the... DARIAN GRUBB The credit story did not change that much. I would have liked to see more color on how fast they wil... BRAD RUBIN I had participated in two plays, and that's all I remember. They told me I was walking gingerly off ... DAVIS NWANKWO Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days si... NEIL GAIMAN As I've played for a wider variety of audiences, I've become more concerned with showing them a good... GAVIN DEGRAW I was cited for having lights on a vehicle. I paid the fines and they released the lights back to me... WILLIAM HOLMES First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER It felt good but we knew they had some good shooters and would come back. They came out and obviousl... AMANDA SIMMONS Coach Zaleski taught me a lot my first year in Louisville, ... I knew the game but from a coaching s... TOMMY JOHNSON I was the running joke in Miami, they were cutting me and recalling me so many times. I had six or s... ETHAN ALBRIGHT They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionsh... RICK RIORDAN I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I was... MATTHEW MCGRORY I think on 'ER,' my other long-running show, I had some ideas about what's going on. ... MING-NA WEN You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, wo... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS My children were very fearful of me. It wasn't that I was an ogre, they didn't know who the hell I w... BARRY ROSEN I was working on throwing my fastball away and inside to left-handed hitters. They haven't told me w... MIKE WOOD As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside... LAURENCE YEP They were looking for images that would last at least five years, and I chose material I knew could ... MARK GRAY I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the N... NAT TURNER The difference was, they were hungry on their chances. They had a bit more zip on their chances and ... MARC CRAWFORD I was on Facebook. I was on MySpace. And somebody said to me, You should check out this thing called... ASHTON KUTCHER I went to a friend's house and we just started using. I took myself out of the picture for a second,... JACK OSBOURNE I would say this is a little more special for me because it's my senior year. We gave it all we had ... ALONSO JIMENEZ I wasn't planning on watching it at all. I was getting out of my car when someone called me and aske... ANTOINE HOOD I really didn't know anything in Connecticut. Windsor was the only place I'd heard of, and I knew th... JENNINE PORTER We jumped out early on them and as I knew they would, they made their run. It was just a war out the... RICHARD DUEASE My brother and sister had a much worse childhood, I think, because they were older, and they had to ... MARIAH CAREY Then there is the tamarind. I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea... MARK TWAIN I felt for a while with the GH appearances, they were kind of using me as a media trick, bringing me... GENIE FRANCIS Cricket South Africa did indicate they would try and get me more involved with the national team and... ALLAN DONALD To be honest, it seems like the decision to release me was taken way in advance. When they informed ... FELIPE LOPEZ I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 3... JACK NICHOLSON I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they could... RANDY CASTILLO Their rebukes have never made me angry, because I have always wondered why they did not rebuke me mo... MINNIE MADDERN FISKE They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true. ROBERT FROST
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THOMPSON In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!" HUNTER S. THOMPSON Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure i... HUNTER S. THOMPSON History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history i... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Buy the ticket take the Ride HUNTER S. THOMPSON If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. HUNTER S. THOMPSON We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Good people drink good beer. HUNTER S. THOMPSON I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend. HUNTER S. THOMPSON I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered f... HUNTER S. THOMPSON It never got weird enough for me. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack... HUNTER S. THOMPSON was doldrums time. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the Arme... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet. HUNTER S. THOMPSON So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or... HUNTER S. THOMPSON I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t... HUNTER S. THOMPSON At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards. HUNTER S. THOMPSON No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Freedom is something that dies unless it's used. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstanc... HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. HUNTER S. THOMPSON 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and... HUNTER S. THOMPSON All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- HUNTER S. THOMPSON The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch... HUNTER S. THOMPSON It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the cris... HUNTER S. THOMPSON and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly HUNTER S. THOMPSON I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like a... HUNTER S. THOMPSON No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink... HUNTER S. THOMPSON We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Fear is just another word for ignorance HUNTER S. THOMPSON I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Some may never live, but the crazy never die HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river HUNTER S. THOMPSON This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Still humping the American Dream HUNTER S. THOMPSON The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep th... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom... HUNTER S. THOMPSON My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this clim... HUNTER S. THOMPSON What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment? HUNTER S. THOMPSON