Jonathan Heatt Quotes

#1. Living life without humor is like eating food without taste buds.

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#2. Racial superiority isn't real. It is delusional fiction created by ignorant people.

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#3. I
Keep writing.
Not because I want to.
It's a respiratory illness.

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#4. The best thing about Art is that the people who create it live forever.

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#5. The harder you work, the more you produce, the more you create, the more you will be rejected. By people who never created shit.

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#6. Getting wasted is never a waste of time.

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#7. Life can be tough and harsh at times. That's what makes it great. Every day is a celebration of survival.

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#8. Everyone is a bender away from oblivion.

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#9. Las Vegas and the American Dream: two ideas intertwined like crossed fingers on a bloated corpse.

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#10. Some people take pretty pictures of nothing.
I'd rather record grime that means something.

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#11. I'll never suppress my identity -- that's like filing away your fingerprints so the money can slide into your pockets easier.

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#12. Guns give Evil a means to expression.

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#13. There is no more contemptible sound than a gunshot.

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#14. America: Land of the free and home of the gun.
We are not brave, we are cowards, or we would have done something, anything after Newtown. Instead we did Nothing.

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#15. Anyone 100% optimistic is on medicine.
Anyone 100% pessimistic should be.

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#16. The thing I've learned writing my book is that everyone has the potential to be a poet, and all of our lives are epic.

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#17. I created a new marketing slogan for Teaching Snapping Turtles:

"Read this. You're not gonna like it.

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#18. i Create. I don't "Need".
Meaning: I don't need advice or criticism.
Unless you're offering money, weed, or whiskey save it. Thanks.

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#19. Listening to Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling...however fleeting.

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#20. When you write a book there are no more pretenses or facades to hide behind. It is very liberating to proclaim "this is who I am.

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#21. The only time I'll quit is when my pulse does.

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#22. The mainstream media in America has become an insidious device of ignorance.
They not only shape the story, but now participate. For what?

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#23. The worse life treats you, the more noble a cause it is to remain a kind person.

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#24. I had too much fun was no one's last regret ever.

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#25. Life's too short to cavort with fork-tongued carnivores.

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#26. Even creating shit is hard to do. First, you need money to buy food. Then you have to chew it, eat it, and swallow. A complex process called digestion follows. Finally, you have to strain and excrete your foul smelling wonder into the world. Try doing that with a paint brush!

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#27. Do I love Black people?
Yes. As much as I love my own race.
Do Black lives matter?
Of course.
Will I oppress my spirit with White Guilt and faulty notions of White Privilege?
Hell no.
Gotta love yourself before you can love anyone else.

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#28. The score is in your subconscious. Sit down long enough at a keyboard and it will come out.

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#29. Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness.

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#30. Regardless if a person likes my book I've earned the title: An American Writer.

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#31. Be the person you are, not the one others try to create.

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#32. I'd rather try everything than try nothing.

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#33. There are only two choices in life: Fight. or crawl in a corner to die. The second choice, while tempting at times, is never acceptable.

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#34. The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.

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