Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONGod’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.
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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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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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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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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.
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In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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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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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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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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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.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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He had that rare weird electricity about him – that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
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All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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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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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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