The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and … - Hunter S. Thompson

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What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other.

Hunter S. Thompson

The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.

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The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.

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