Chuck Thompson Quotes

• There are two things to do in Juneau, drink and get drunk.

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  Two, Drunk, Drink

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

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  Vocabulary, Keys, Games

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• No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.

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  Inspirational, Travel, Inspiring Travel

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

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• If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell.

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  Hands, Stories, Beats

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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.

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  People, Tough, Kind

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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.

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  Country, Fashion, Stars

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

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