Snap Shots & Quick Takes
“Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
• “Every heart has its graveyard.” -Zora Neal Hurston-
• “As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.” -Charles Bukowski-
• “Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning-
• “Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother’s path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.” -Mark Twain-
• “Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.” -Langston Hughes-
• “Cemetery, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target, and stonecutters spell for a wager.” -Ambrose Bierce-
-K-
• “Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.”
• “Well, you have to expect to take some chances when you’re using junk.”
• “You’re bound to get some good breaks if you stick around long enough.”
• “I don’t spot junk neighborhoods by the way they look, but by the feel….”
• “A sick junkie has no escape from external time, no place to go.”
• “No one knows what junk is until he is junk sick.”
• “A junky spends half his life waiting.”
• “Junk is an inoculation of death that keeps the body in a condition of emergency.”
-K-
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
• “There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald-
• “I should like to tidy things up and disappear.” -Virginia Woolf-
• “Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.” -H.G. Wells-
• “I do have a sense, and I’ve never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.” -Doris Lessing-
• “Plunder, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.” -Ambrose Bierce-
-K-
“I had come regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no sense talking about it.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
• “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it a thousand times.” -Mark Twain-
• “I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.” -T.S. Eliot-
• “A cigarette is the perfect type of perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one satisfied. What more can one want?” -Oscar Wilde-
• “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?” -Albert Camus-
• “That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t worry-poetry is still first. Cigarettes and coffee follow.” -Anne Sexton-
-K-
“Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives…and to the ‘good life,’ whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
• “Men shut their doors against a setting sun.” -William Shakespeare-
• “When you follow your bliss…doors will open where you would not thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else.” -Joseph Campbell-
• “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” -Aldous Huxley-
• “The more dooors there are for you to open, the better the play.” -Tom Stoppard-
• “A very litttle key will open a very heavy door.” -Charles Dickens-
• “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as is, infinite.” -William Blake-
-K-
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
