"I had a flash of something I hadn't felt since my first months in Europe -- a mixture of ignorance and a loose, "what the hell" kind of confidence that comes on a man when the wind picks up and he begins to move in a hard straight line toward an unknown horizon."
Thompson, Hunter S. "The Rum Diary."
His natural state of conversation is silence.
'Oliver Goldsmith was asked, 'Is your mind at ease?' 'No, it is not,' he said quite briskly, and died.'
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