She laughed. 'It won't last. Nothing lasts. But I'm happy now.' 'Happy,' I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception--especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far too relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they're scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.
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His voice softer. "I... KODY KEPLINGER To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I am not too happy with terms like “the left”, to be honest. And I don’t use it much….if by ... NOAM CHOMSKY Love doesn't give you very many choices. When you love someone, you just want to be with them. If th... ALYSHA SPEER And barefoot or first thing in the morning, I feel beautiful. Because I feel like me. I didn't alway... ANGELINA JOLIE It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with ... HARRY CONNICK, JR. Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes c... RAY CHARLES For the person who tortured me in jail. For the person who tortured the many of my followers a... AHMAD MOFTIZADEH But at times words can be a dangerous addition to music — they can pin it down. Words imply that t... 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"Just think about what c... HARUKI MURAKAMI i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g... DALLY SALAD You know how there are words that never really—they are never really quite right. You can't quite ... EMMA RICHLER In Memoriam A.H.H. Section 5 I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words t... ALFRED TENNYSON I tell me: Let these words be footsteps, because I have a long way to travel. Let the wor... MARKUS ZUSAK You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up... ONE DIRECTION If a person’s deeds are truly better, then his words are bound to be greater; but if his words are... ANUJ SOMANY I like to make people happy and please everyone at the same time, but it's not easy. I've got a real... AJ MCLEAN Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor ... BIBLE Love those who hurt you the most, because they are probably the ones closest to you. They, too,... NIKKI SIXX I love it, because I feel like it helps build sort of a bridge for me. Because you feel sort of disc... JEFF BOLLING (...)because Miss Temple has generally something to say which is newer than my own reflections; her ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in... AND CITY Desperate Housewives. AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it. AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-... AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte... AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio... AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth... AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ... AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana. JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight, JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent, JILL AND All round me are words, and words and words, They grow on me like leaves, they never Seem ... KAMALA SURAIYYA DAS Previously, as I went through life, I was in full belief of the concept of "blending" (I was fully c... C. JOYBELL C. Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words h... ZHUANGZI My mother tells me that when I meet someone I like, I have to ask them three questions: CAITLYN SIEHL There are parts of me that are broken. Thank you, they don't need fixing. There are places and... MISHI MCCOY If I could take a bite of the whole world And feel it on my palate I’d be more happy for... ALBERTO CAEIRO But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, ma... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Family," she announced. "They're the people in your life you don't get to pick. The ones that are gi... SARAH DESSEN These people lost too much, ... Sometimes there are just no words to explain. I got tired of w... ABRAHAM NUNEZ We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, a... CORNELIA FUNKE I KNEW IT WAS OVER when tonight you couldn't make the phone ring when you use... DAPHNE GOTTLIEB I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized place... 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CARRIE JONES It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so h... STEPHEN CHBOSKY When he called she tried not to break down, but voice so often betrays emotion and her's wept, "He l... DONNA LYNN HOPE We have nothing to speak about. There never was. Words are an unnecessary trouble. Expression is tim... CECIL BALDWIN
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THOMPSON The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. HUNTER S. THOMPSON We can't stop here, this is bat country! HUNTER S. THOMPSON A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God sing... HUNTER S. THOMPSON In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!" HUNTER S. THOMPSON Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure i... HUNTER S. THOMPSON History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history i... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Buy the ticket take the Ride HUNTER S. THOMPSON If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. HUNTER S. THOMPSON We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Good people drink good beer. HUNTER S. THOMPSON I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend. HUNTER S. THOMPSON I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered f... HUNTER S. THOMPSON It never got weird enough for me. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack... HUNTER S. THOMPSON was doldrums time. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the Arme... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet. HUNTER S. THOMPSON So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or... HUNTER S. THOMPSON I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t... HUNTER S. THOMPSON At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards. HUNTER S. THOMPSON No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Freedom is something that dies unless it's used. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstanc... HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. HUNTER S. THOMPSON 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and... HUNTER S. THOMPSON All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- HUNTER S. THOMPSON The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch... HUNTER S. THOMPSON It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the cris... HUNTER S. THOMPSON and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly HUNTER S. THOMPSON I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like a... HUNTER S. THOMPSON No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink... HUNTER S. THOMPSON We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Fear is just another word for ignorance HUNTER S. THOMPSON I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Some may never live, but the crazy never die HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river HUNTER S. THOMPSON This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Still humping the American Dream HUNTER S. THOMPSON The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep th... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom... HUNTER S. THOMPSON My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this clim... HUNTER S. THOMPSON