"Sounds of life and movement, people getting..." - Quote by Hunter S Thompson
Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.
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“There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It’s a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I’d take advantage of it while you can.”
“...the crazy never die.”
“There might be some serious fun in politics.”
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“You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand”
“Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation”
“The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.”
More on Time
“The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.”
“Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.”
“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?”