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The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who see it coming and jump aside.
The Rum Diary (1998)
I sat there for a long time, and thought about a lot of things.
The Rum Diary (1998)
Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception — especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong.
The Rum Diary (1998)
What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.
The Rum Diary (1998)
Suddenly I was tired of Lotterman; he was a phony and he didn't even know it.
The Rum Diary (1998)
I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague there was no sense talking about it.
The Rum Diary (1998)
Freedom, Truth, Honour — you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
The Rum Diary (1998)
It was the tension between these two poles — a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other — that kept me going.
The Rum Diary (1998)
Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.
The Rum Diary (1998)
I looked out at the ships and the sea beyond them, and I felt crazy to be free with a whole day ahead of me.
Then I realized I would sleep most of the day, and my excitement disappeared.
The Rum Diary (1998)
The scene I had just witnessed brought back a lot of memories — not of things I have done but of things I have failed to do, wasted hours and frustrated moments and opportunities forever lost because time had eaten so much of my life and I would never get it back.
The Rum Diary (1998)