"I’m a word freak. I like words...." - Quote by Hunter S Thompson
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
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“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem”
“The mind & body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs & music.”
“I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.”
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“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”
“Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.”
“It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that's not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It's a gut feeling.”