
“The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.”
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"November", p 450-457
1970s, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)
Context: There was something... total... something very undermining about the McGovern defeat... There was a very unexplained kind of... ominous quality to it... weeping chaos. People you'd never expect to break down... stumbled off the plane in tears... It was such a shock to me that although I'd gone back to Washington to analyze... I saw how ripped up people were... I decided to hell with this... So I just went right around to the main terminal and got on another plane and went back to Colorado.

“Boldness is something that you cannot take away from the prophets and geniuses.”

http://alexpeak.com/twr/racism/
The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

Nature's Eternal Religion (1973), Ch. 2, Paragraph 4
Nature's Eternal Religion (1973)
“On Preparing to Read Kipling”, p. 125
A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables (1962)

General Survey
The Function of the Orgasm (1927)