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"What is right to be done cannot be done too soon."

"Procrastination threatens critics' livelihood."

"Why work today? I'll take Tuesday on, just like I took Monday off. That's just the kind of dedicated worker I am."

"We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation."

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

"Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter."

"Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder."

"The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research."

"WE MAY FEEL...BUT WE DON'TWe may feel the need to change employment, but we don't.We may feel the need to start a specific project, but we don't.We may feel the need to pursue higher education, but we don'tWe may feel the need to heal a broken relationship, but we don't.We may feel the need to work to improve our spiritual lives, but we don't.We may feel the need to take steps toward a healthier physical or emotional life for ourselves and/or our family, but again, we don't.(This list could likely go on for eternity.)The desire for progression is innate, but the problem we face is that the actual act of progression is also a choice.Without embracing our inherent need for progress, for positive growth and/or change, we'll still go on living....But at what cost?"

"Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough."
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"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."

"I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling."

"Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times."

"Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror."

"Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion-often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation-that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter."

"Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is."

"Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear.Ho ho ho. Let's not get carried away here. Freedom was yesterday in this country. Its value has been discounted. The only freedom we truly crave today is freedom from Dumbness. Nothing else matters."

"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."

"All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These people should be kept at home, I thought; lock them in the basement of some goddamn Elks Club and keep them pacified with erotic movies; if they want a vacation, show them a foreign art film; and if they still aren't satisfied, send them into the wilderness and run them with vicious dogs."
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