“I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.”
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“All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.”
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“As your attorney I advise you to get the chiliburger. It’s a hamburger with chili on it.”
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“May your love for me be
like
the scent of the evening sea
drifting in
through a quiet window
so i do not have to run
or chase or fall
... to feel you
all i have to do
is
breathe.”
― A Thousand Flamingos
like
the scent of the evening sea
drifting in
through a quiet window
so i do not have to run
or chase or fall
... to feel you
all i have to do
is
breathe.”
― A Thousand Flamingos
“And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.”
― ABC of Reading
― ABC of Reading
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