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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

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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Control Fatal Fear Mindset Question Stupidity Time
On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
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Believe Loud Music Night Right Run
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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Fear Moments True Worst Yourself
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
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
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Acceptance Choice Hands Life Necessary Yourself
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
It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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Love Night Sleep Smile Story 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
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
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
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
Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
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Learning Love Music Seek Truth Walk Warrior
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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Failure Future Learning Past Visit
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach
In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Final Stupidity Thief World
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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Life Man Myself Rhythm

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