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Words of Wisdom

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1miirae Premier message
Juil 15, 2007, 3:24 pm

I'm always writing down my favourite passages and quotes from books, and I thought it might be nice to have a thread where people could post their favourite HST quotes (:

I'll start off with this one:

"Anything worth doing is worth doing right."
(from 'Kingdom of Fear')

2ellevee
Juil 15, 2007, 3:26 pm

'I shit on the chest of fun.'

3dodger
Juil 15, 2007, 4:25 pm

The classics never die:

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”

Also, I’ve always liked:

“The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep would be doing on Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war.

&

“The Edge ... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”

4miirae
Modifié : Juil 15, 2007, 7:40 pm

Another one from 'Kingdom of Fear':

"My life has been the polar opposite of safe, but I am proud of it and so is my son, and that is good enough for me. I would do it all over again without changing the beat, although I have never recommended it to others. That would be cruel and irresponsible and wrong, I think, and I am none of those things."

*Edit* Here's one from 'The Proud Highway', written by HST aged 17:

"As an afterthought, it seems hardly proper to write of life without once mentioning happiness; so we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"