# Proud Highway - Author: [Hunter S. Thompson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson.md) - Quotes: 16 - Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway ## Quotes > There is at this moment a beetle the size of god's ass on the table about six inches from the t-writer. It is worse than anything Kafka ever dreamed, so big I can see its eyes and the hair on its legs — jesus, suddenly it leaped off and now circles me with a menacing whir. p. 337 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/there-is-at-this.md) > Events of the past two years have virtually decreed that I shall wrestle with the literary muse for the rest of my days. And so, having tasted the poverty of one end of the scale, I have no choice but to direct my energies toward the acquisition of fame and fortune. Frankly, I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left me. p. 106 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/events-of-the.md) > A man has to BE something; he has to matter. p. 118 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/a-man-has.md) > I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted. p. 109 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/i-may-sound.md) > You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper. p. 30 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/youd-be-surprised.md) > A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. p. 119 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/a-man-who.md) > Something new is wanted. A new novel, perhaps. Something the ten-percenters don't have their hooks into yet. Those soul-fuckers should all be killed. p. 630 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/something-new-is-wanted.md) > Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me...and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy; ere the seven burly lads turn into creditors and hustle me off to debtors' prison at last. p. 44 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/ah-fortune-and.md) > They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" — and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all". And with that, I'll stop trying to convince myself that I can't fail; how dull the whole thing would be if that were true. p. 71 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/they-say-that.md) > Sacrificing good men to journalism is like sending William Faulkner to work for Time magazine. p. 142 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/sacrificing-good-men.md) > I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively. … For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words. p. 133 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/i-find-that.md) > Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money. p. 440 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/once-i-establish.md) > Hopes rise and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street. p. 28 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/hopes-rise-and.md) > Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again. p. 192 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/platitudes-are-safe.md) > (Just heard Gen. White's proclamation that we "have Russia zeroed in from all directions." I am waiting now for Vannevar Bush and Ed Teller to announce that our new supersensitive radar picked up a rash of heart tremors from the direction of the USSR, immediately after White's remarkably insignificant statement, I could almost hear Karl Marx laughing in his tomb.) p. 76 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/just-heard-gen.md) > But fie on these unanswered queries and fie on those who pose them. There are stories to be written, drinks to be drunk, women to be ravished, and … alas, money to be made. We shall ride the bouncing ball and fight gamely to avoid being on the bottom when it bounces. … that is all ye know and all ye need to know. Amen. p. 96 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/proud-highway/but-fie-on-these.md)