Chuck Thompson quotes

“No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.”
-- Chuck Thompson

Source : Chuck Thompson (2010). “To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism”, p.15, Macmillan

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“Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed.”
-- Chuck Thompson

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“Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion—the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.”
-- Chuck Thompson

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“There are two things to do in Juneau, drink and get drunk.”
-- Chuck Thompson

Source : Chuck Thompson (2007). “Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer”, p.15, Macmillan

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“Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion—the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.”
-- Chuck Thompson

Source : Chuck Thompson (2013). “Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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“It's easy to be a tough competitor and still be the kind of person with whom people love to compete.”
-- Chuck Thompson

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“If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell.”
-- Chuck Thompson

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“A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.”

Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com

“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”

“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”

“When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.”

“If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.”

“Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.”

“Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.”

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”

“Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.”

“Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.”