What did Hunter S. Thompson mean by: I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. - Hunter S. Thompson Journalist · USA Copy
+ Platitudes are safe, because they’re easy to wink at, but truth is something else again. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hunter S. Thompson, Safe, Truth Is, 0 - Hunter S. Thompson Journalist · USA
+ Fiction is based on reality unless you’re a fairytale artist. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hunter S. Thompson, Artist, Reality, Writing, 0 - Hunter S. Thompson Journalist · USA
+ As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hunter S. Thompson, Decent, Figures, 0 - Hunter S. Thompson Journalist · USA
+ There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hunter S. Thompson, Jesus, 0 - Hunter S. Thompson Journalist · USA
+ Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hunter S. Thompson, Motivational, 0 - Hunter S. Thompson Journalist · USA
+ I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hunter S. Thompson, Knowing, Proud, 0 - Hunter S. Thompson Journalist · USA
+ All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hunter S. Thompson, Blood, Democracy, Population, 0 - Hunter S. Thompson Journalist · USA
+ Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hunter S. Thompson, Cells, Hunters, Truth, 0 - Hunter S. Thompson Journalist · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
