Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
Hunter S. ThompsonRead
I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.
Interpretation
Pain can be endured, but that doesn't mean it is good for us.
In this quote, Hunter S. Thompson reflects on the complex relationship between pain and endurance. While he acknowledges his capacity to withstand pain, he suggests that the ability to tolerate suffering isn't inherently virtuous or beneficial; rather, it raises questions about the nature of resilience and the implications of enduring pain for extended periods.
In practice
During a motivational speech on resilience, one might say, 'As Hunter S. Thompson once expressed, I hate pain, but it teaches us endurance.'
Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come screaming down on you like a goddamn banshee. There's no avoiding it...So one day you just don't appear at the El Adobe bar anymore; you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were - the writer.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull.
How do I control my emotions? How do I stop getting angry so often, or how do I stop being sad? And I think there's a really important distinction to understand is that you can't completely control your emotions. What you control is your reaction to your own emotions. And a lot of people don't ever make that separation for what goes on with them.
One swallow alone does not make a summer.
Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.
Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.
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