Authors on Taking a Chance

“Don’t let them slow you down. Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.” -Thomas Wolfe-
“Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain-
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far it is possible to go.” -T.S. Eliot-

“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.” -Neil Gaiman-
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson-

-K-

Dose of Dr. Gonzo

“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”

-Hunter S. Thompson-

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald-

“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.” -Charlotte Bronte-

“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone.” -bell hooks-

“Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship-but the loneliness of the soul in its appaling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.” -Sylvia Plath-

-K-

“Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.”

-Hunter S. Thompson-

“On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.”

-Hunter S. Thompson-

“No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

-Hunter S. Thompson-

“Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.”

-Hunter S. Thompson-

“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.” -Arthur Miller-

“Do not whine…Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.” -Joan Didion-

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson-

“Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today’s employer is seeking.” -Patrick Kennedy Toole-

“If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you are a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.” -Kurt Vonnegut-

“In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not subversive.” -Bill Waterson-

-K-