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I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Hunter S. Thompson

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Expectation Law Order People
I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Black Light Moon Naked Need
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Depression Mad Truth Work
Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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Art Crazy Form Insanity Legal
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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Failure Goodness Liberty People Promise Reason Represent
In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Alone Cruelty Deserve Happiness Oneself Peace Personal Weird World
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
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?
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Existence Happiness Man Question Reading Security Stay
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
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Feeling Hate Myself Old Strange Wisdom
Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Failure Future Learning Past Visit
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

People Politics Power Way
Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Avoid Friendship Police Yourself
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

Ability Day Important Live Lonely Strong Writing
There is no story unless you’ve written it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Story Writing Yourself
Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Lonely Love Past Planning

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