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"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!"
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"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
"If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing."
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"Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them."
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"Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind."
― City of Lost Souls
― City of Lost Souls
"I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant."
― Chocolat
― Chocolat
"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend."
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"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery."
― The Republic
― The Republic
"My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, "Sir, I am your most humble servant." You are not his most humble servant. You may say, "These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times." You don't mind the times ... You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society; but don't think foolishly."
― The Life of Johnson, Vol 4
― The Life of Johnson, Vol 4
"The bigger the better; in everything."
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"America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death."
― Don't Waste Your Life
― Don't Waste Your Life
"I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone because it'll ruin my image."
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"Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess."
― The Alloy of Law
― The Alloy of Law
"Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all."
― Fear of Nothing
― Fear of Nothing
"Those that much covet are with gain so fond,
For what they have not, that which they possess
They scatter and unloose it from their bond,
And so, by hoping more, they have but less;
Or, gaining more, the profit of excess
Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,
That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain."
― The Rape of Lucrece
For what they have not, that which they possess
They scatter and unloose it from their bond,
And so, by hoping more, they have but less;
Or, gaining more, the profit of excess
Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,
That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain."
― The Rape of Lucrece
"There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of wine. There are even people who smoke one or two cigarettes a week. And then there are people for whom one of anything is not even an option."
― Thinking About Memoir
― Thinking About Memoir
"Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away."
― Revolution
― Revolution
"For the love of God, unless you're prepping for Rigoletto at the Met, go easy on the eyeliner."
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"No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation."
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"Excess makes the heart grow fonder..."
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"Exceed not thy actions, but limit not thy mind."
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"A couple of years ago my sister Judy and I were each given a box of truffles. The tiny print said two pieces contained 310 calories and there were six pieces in each box. We were sitting on the bus headed downtown, quietly doing our calculations: Judy was dividing by two and I was multiplying by three. When she realized what I was doing, a look came over her face that is hard to describe. 'I lost all hope for you' she says now."
― Thinking About Memoir
― Thinking About Memoir
"I couldn't dream of doing anything
by halves. Whatever it is, I'll take the whole
bouquet. Please and soon."
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by halves. Whatever it is, I'll take the whole
bouquet. Please and soon."
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"I begin to write, almost without realizing it, without thinking, busy transmitting these words I don't recognize, although they are highly significant: "Too much! Too much! You're giving me too much!"
― Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984
― Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984
"I wouldn't mind giving everything
to the light right now, after this
dark, dark season. I'm in need
of excess, gluttony, pleasure
that implodes into suffering."
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to the light right now, after this
dark, dark season. I'm in need
of excess, gluttony, pleasure
that implodes into suffering."
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"The ego likes using the word More."
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