Work was impossible. The geeks had broken my spirit. They had done too many things wrong. It was never like this for Mencken. He lived like a Prussian gambler -- sweating worse than Bryant on some nights and drunker than Judas on others. It was all a dehumanized nightmare...and these raddled cretins have the gall to complain about my deadlines.
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Related I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing ... PHILIPPA GREGORY It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was... HARPER LEE (On Panic Attacks) And once I had my first one with Maegan, they crept up about once a month. And wi... MAMRIE HART He was not my boyfriend. On the other hand, he wasn't just a friend either. Instead, our relationshi... SARAH DESSEN The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She... HAN KANG My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for th... DON RICKLES Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes ... EVELYN UNDERHILL He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she ... CASSANDRA CLARE It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the P... ALICE HAMILTON I feel like in just one week I was challenged physically, mentally and emotionally by being in a dif... FELICIA FENG Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning... SARAH DESSEN He was coming across the lane and he had a good screen set on him. It was a clean play. It just caug... GRANT SMYTHERS Was this, too, part of growing up? Was it facing the bad things you’d done as well as the good, an... CHRISTINA HENRY The success of 'The Celebration' was like a hand grenade exploding in my face. It suddenly g... THOMAS VINTERBERG My stuff was better than it had been in my last two (starts). It was just a strange game. I made a f... CHRIS CARPENTER No one in my family or my circle of friends had ever had to confront something like this. Jamie was ... NICHOLAS SPARKS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I stumbled across some information on her during the spring of 1977. What struck me about her was th... WILDA SMITH This year I felt like they had a better team than us. This was a tougher team to play than the ones ... GREG NERO We had done a good job scouting them. Our focus all week was on Keokuk, but this was a fun game. It ... KATE CARR I'm not sure of the count but that was one of the bad things for me, to see these little kids gettin... ERNIE WESTGARTH I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, ... TUCKER CARLSON I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he ha... CHRIS ISAAK There are right and wrong reasons for doing solo projects, and this album was done for the right rea... GLENN TIPTON My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it... MARCO RUBIO This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it ... SARAH DESSEN It was a lot worse on the Dallas side than the Fort Worth side because temperatures were a little lo... JOE HARRIS I had all the confidence in the world that Antone was going to get it done. But if he hit one hard a... COLLIN COWGILL Still i knew because of my own feelings there was something wrong with me and i knew it wasnt only m... DONALD MILLER February was always the cruellest month for Hunter S Thompson, DOUGLAS BRINKLEY That game hurt a lot. I took it personally. I should have done better than I did. I thought about it... CHRISTY ALTAMIRANO I reminded myself that there were just some things we never had talked about before, like sex, money... DOROTHY ALLISON It was a nightmare. We had penalties on things that were so elementary. JAY NORVELL My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because... DAKOTA FANNING Culture shock was worse coming back than it was going to Japan. My mom had to worry again. CAROLYN LUND I just had a bad attitude about it all, I didn't really have the desire to play. Since I was like ei... GARY WILKINSON I've had the most incredible luck in my career. I've done lots and lots of jobs, and I've never, eve... RICHARD DAWSON Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. DENNIS RITCHIE I never wanted to marry anyone before,” he said. “When two people marry, they surrender a small ... ILONA ANDREWS There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost m... ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. When I was on 'SNL,' I was getting weirdly anxious about being on camera, which I had never ... BILL HADER We went to Detroit. I wanted to see what was going on in some other parts of the world. You know, I ... CHARLES PHILLIPS I felt like somebody had a vice and was squeezing it on my head. MING CHIN I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and ... COREY TAYLOR Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It... KIRSTEN DUNST For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins... DOUGLAS ADAMS For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins... DOUGLAS ADAMS What was it like?” Manon asked quietly. “To love.” For love was what it had been—what Asteri... SARAH J. MAAS Our Easters were elaborate productions with these big Easter Egg hunts out in the woods, and it was ... NICK CAVE You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade t... CLIFFORD D. SIMAK One of the first speaking roles I had was in a film called 'Svengali', with Peter O'Tool... TOBIN BELL At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat ... ERIC CLAPTON For this game, we shot it just like it as if it was a film so there wasn't that much different f... JOSIE MARAN It was a fruit we had never seen before, larger than an apple, about the size of a grapefruit. It wa... MAI AL-NAKIB I look back on my life like a good day's work; it was done and I am satisfied with it ANNA MARY ROBERTSON MOSES See, I was never a guy who had a whole heap of friends to belong to. Besides Greg Fienni, I never re... MARKUS ZUSAK Our operators found a valve that was turned off after work had been done on a meter. The valve appar... FLAVIO GONZALEZ By a lot of people's standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I ... CATHERINE TATE Like so many things Henry had wanted in life -- like his father, his marriage, his life -- it had ar... JAMIE FORD There was this one guy who used to come into this one club all the time, ... and he had these glasse... EDWARD NORTON My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful. JACLYN SMITH I was girly and friendly and my family life was happy but many days I felt like I was on the inside ... KIMBERLY NOVOSEL My first celeb crush was Hanson. I loved all three of them. My sister and I would always fight, and ... ASHLEY BENSON That was something I've never done in my career. When I was getting ready to throw, I had the feelin... DAISUKE MATSUZAKA He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and... J.K. ROWLING That's the only negative about this. These kids have been working hard all year for a win like this.... JASPER WILLIAMS 'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't le... THE WEEKND I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it&... MIKE WHITE We all agreed, yes, it needs to be done. It just so happened that I was in a part of my career that ... BECKY SELENGUT I couldn't imagine that I'd ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon. For better or worse, he ... SYLVIA DAY My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off ... SYLVIA PLATH Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...... DOUGLAS ADAMS Jesus of Nazareth was the most famous human being who ever lived on this planet, and he had no infra... BILL O'REILLY It had happened. I had brought the dream out into reality and it had dissolved. It was just a dream ... JAMES FRANCO He had done his homework on me. I like that. He was serious about me. ALEX WOOD Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things... DARIUS MILES My dad was pretty old school. I've had a job since I can remember, and it's not like he was ... SCOTT EASTWOOD My thumb is broken ... in a couple of places. My lower leg was shattered in I don't know how many pi... CLARK METCALFE There were about 30 children at one stage, running around like savages at a place called Callow Hill... SAUL DAVID I think it left an impression, because in (my) four years, he had never done something like that. It... ADAM BURISH So many people never find the one, because they are too lazy to work hard on something that was mean... PHILIP T. M. I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she... MAE WHITMAN He had to be carried out on a stretcher and (Bailey) was hobbling around on one foot. I have no use ... CHARLES GREENE He called for it and it stopped. As soon as I had her in my sight I started shaking. I've done some ... AMY MLINAR The scariest thing about 'Roy' was that it was sync sound. So, I had to worry about my dicti... JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM My commitment to new politics, to those values will never change, ... One of the things that my supp... BILL BRADLEY The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far mo... ANDY GOLDSWORTHY He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of p... TANYA TUCKER I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its mea... G.K. CHESTERTON With just about every script, in almost every corner of the set, I was faced with the truth: This wa... DIANE GUERRERO I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just rel... TOM WELLING I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that ... JOICHI ITO It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look. TAYLOR HACKFORD Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, to... ERNEST HEMINGWAY All of a sudden, the crowd picked up. It was louder than it had been all night. After I missed the f... CHRIS DIMASSA My friend... used to tease me about a tattoo I had right here, but it was so big, and what he was te... ALLEN IVERSON I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to ... ISABEL ALLENDE The fact was that I had always been considered a leader in my scholastic career. It just never dawne... GERALDINE STUTZ It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place. PAT METHENY
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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