"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with."

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I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.

— Hunter S. Thompson