I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONHe 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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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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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.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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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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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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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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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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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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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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