"Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"
— Hunter S. Thompson

January 1, 1970

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"Security" (1951); excerpted in Outlaw Journalist: The Life & Times of Hunter S. Thompson (2008), page 15