Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONA man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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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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If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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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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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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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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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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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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