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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.

Hunter S. Thompson

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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Death Freedom Philosophy
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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Choice Circumstance Himself Man Procrastination
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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Fear Kill Yourself
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach
I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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Black Light Moon Naked Need
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
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Existence Happiness Man Question Reading Security Stay
I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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Fight Myself Right Weird Yourself
These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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Day Dog Rich Run Yourself
I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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Law Myself Necessary Place Try
I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Distance Feeling Myself Reality
I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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Journey Myself Time Way
Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Feeling Medium Word Yourself
Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I’ll drink instead!
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Comfortable Death Drink Live Man Myself Soul
It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.
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Feeling Hate Myself Old Strange Wisdom
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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Expectation Law Order People
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

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