alt Hacker NewsA pretty incredible answer to your question comes from a perhaps wholly unexpected source: Hunter S. Thompson, in a letter responding to a friend's request for life advice:
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laxpri • today at 8:37 PM
bro wtf. thanks. this letter is so real.I was thinking about how many times he had to reread to make it perfect .
What great writing. I should go read more of his stuff.
I’m definitely borrowing the phrase “galloping neurosis” the next chance I get.