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Jack Thompson
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she recommended becoming a published author to all people with drinking problems. A writer can blunder through life like Norman Mailer with his “tiny fist” striking out at cocktail parties, and all anyone will think is that he is a classical drunk writer. If he did something like that and worked at P.I.P., one of the musclebound stock boys would
... See moreEve Babitz • Sex and Rage: A Novel
He often spoke of “dear old Adolf” and his SS, who knew what to do with thugs who picked on artists. America was the place, he said, “where honest men were all robbed and bludgeoned by scoundrels.”
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
"My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out."
Didion, Joan. "Introduction".
... See moreNot for me. No mercy for a criminal freak in Las Vegas. This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails—eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Ralph Steadman • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
“See that toe?” he said as he gunned the heap to eighty and passed everybody on the road. “Look at it.” It was swathed in bandages. “I just had it amputated this morning. The bastards wanted me to stay in the hospital. I packed my bag and left. What’s a toe.”
Jack Kerouac • On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
