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The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.

Hunter S. Thompson

Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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Judgement One Liner Price
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
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Comparison Music Myself Word Work
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach
It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Dreamy Fall Fantasy Feeling Pool
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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Depression Mad Truth Work
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
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Animal Behavior Creature Earth Human
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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Believe Democracy Myself Thinking
It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Goodness Greatness Interest Myself
Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Drive Fast Fun Late Love Sleep Wild
These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Day Dog Rich Run Yourself
Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Cherish Goodness Price Worship
For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Earth Lose Place
There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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Challenge Dangerous Death Power Risk
The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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Country Down Hit Low New
Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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Lonely Love Past Planning
If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Character Crazy Pay Yourself

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