Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThe only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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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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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
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If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
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Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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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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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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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.
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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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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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