"There are times, however, and this is..." - Quote by Hunter S Thompson
There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death?
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“They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.”
“The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.”
“The mind & body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs & music.”
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“People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.”
“Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.”
“Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one.”
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“Nothing is hidden under the sun.”
“What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.”
“That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea that politicians- even the slickest and brightest presidential candidates- were real heroes and truly exciting people. That is wrong on its face. They are mainly dull people with corrupt instincts and criminal children.”