Comments on: A Good Doc on the Good Doctor http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/index.php/2008/03/10/a-good-doc-on-the-good-doctor/ Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:55:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: stephenhsmith http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/index.php/2008/03/10/a-good-doc-on-the-good-doctor/#comment-70759 stephenhsmith Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:44:50 +0000 http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/index.php/2008/03/10/a-good-doc-on-the-good-doctor/#comment-70759 "Once they let you get away with running around for ten years like a king hoodlum, you tend to forget now and then that about half of the people you meet live from one day to the next in a state of such fear and uncertainty, that about half the time they doubt their own sanity. These are not the kind of people who really need to get hung up on depressing political trips. They are not ready for it. Their boats are rocking so badly that all they want to do is get level long enough to think straight and avoid the next nightmare." Hunter S. Thompson 'Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72' pg 64 I've learned after thirty years of experience that this quote is so accurate, that I have printed it out and stuck it on my wall where I can see it everyday to remind me that most of the people who chance upon my writings or, heaven help 'em, have to endure me in person, are people who lead cluttered, stormy and fragile lives, compared to mine. And they do not have the luxury of time, nor if they did, would have the desire to investigate the injustices manifesting all around them with ever greater frequency and intensity, and contemplate their greater and future significance. I do not envy them and find it most ironic that they do not envy me. shs feb2007 “Once they let you get away with running around for ten years like a king hoodlum, you tend to forget now and then that about half of the people you meet live from one day to the next in a state of such fear and uncertainty, that about half the time they doubt their own sanity. These are not the kind of people who really need to get hung up on depressing political trips. They are not ready for it. Their boats are rocking so badly that all they want to do is get level long enough to think straight and avoid the next nightmare.”

Hunter S. Thompson ‘Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72′ pg 64

I’ve learned after thirty years of experience that this quote is so accurate, that I have printed it out and stuck it on my wall where I can see it everyday to remind me that most of the people who chance upon my writings or, heaven help ‘em, have to endure me in person, are people who lead cluttered, stormy and fragile lives, compared to mine. And they do not have the luxury of time, nor if they did, would have the desire to investigate the injustices manifesting all around them with ever greater frequency and intensity, and contemplate their greater and future significance. I do not envy them and find it most ironic that they do not envy me. shs feb2007

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