“A man has to do something; he has to matter.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Authors on Vanishing II
Five More Pieces of Fleeting Advice
- “I cannot help vanishing and disappearing and dissolving. It is my foremost trait. -Stephen Crane-
- “One way or another, it seems, we all perform vanishing tricks, effacing history, locking up our lives and slipping day by day into the graying shadows.” -Tim O’Brien-
- “I do have a sense, and I’ve never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.” -Doris Lessing-
- “I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It’s very strange how often strong feelings don’t seem to carry any message of action.” -Phillip Larkin-
- “The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects-making it possible…to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.” -Susan Sontag-
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Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“We strive to be ourselves.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Authors on Night
Six Bits of Wisdom
- “What hath night to do with sleep?” -John Milton-
- “No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.” -Edna St. Vincent Millay-
- “At night we are all strangers, even to ourselves.” -Alexander McCall Smith
- “No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear his heart and eye the morning can be.” -Bram Stoker-
- “Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.” -H.G. Wells-
- “Beware the night, child. All cats are black in the dark.” -Jean Genet-
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Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“Perspectives can change who you are.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“Significant experiences will change your perspectives.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“You are the sum of your reactions to experiences.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“Don’t accept choices handed down to you.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“Goals conform to the individual-not individual to goal.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Wisdom of James Joyce
Five Bits to Ponder for St. Patrick’s Day
- “There’s no friends like old friends.”
- “…and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”
- “The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.”
- “I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures do not happen to people who remain home: they must be sought abroad.”
- “One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion than fade and wither dismally with age.”
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