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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.

Hunter S. Thompson

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach
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
These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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Day Dog Rich Run Yourself
On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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Day Need Yourself
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
I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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Compare Flame Myself
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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Character Crazy Pay Yourself
Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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Art Beautiful Face
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
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
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Comparison Music Myself Word Work
A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Measurement Sanity
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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heavy Himself Hope Normal Rare Weird Wild
You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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Man Place Reason Sight Yourself
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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Law Myself Problem Taste
God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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God Mercy Yourself
There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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Story Writing Yourself

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