“Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Authors on Vanishing
Five Pieces of Fleeting Advice
• “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-
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Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“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-
Authors on Coffee and Cigarettes
Better Nickel Worth of Wisdom
• “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-
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Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“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-
Authors on Doors
Six Bits of Wisdom
• “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-
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Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you’ve been here for five years.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Authors on Gambling
A Penny Worth of Wagering Wisdom
• “Here the nerves may stand on end and scream to themselves, but a tranquility as from heaven is only interrupted by the click of chips. The higher the stakes, the more quiet the scene.” -Stephen Crane-
• “This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn’t gambling, he’s cheating.” -Malcolm X-
• “The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour upon the business known as gambling.” -Ambrose Bierce-
• “The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics; more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise.” -Joan Didion-
• “One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.” -Oscar Wilde-
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Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
