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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.

Hunter S. Thompson

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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Journey Myself Time Way
The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.
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Ability Day Important Live Lonely Strong Writing
For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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Earth Lose Place
Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Goodness Sex Writing
There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
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Dangerous Evil Vote Way
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
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach
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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Decision Goal Live Way Yourself
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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Fear Kill Yourself
As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.
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Important Information Understand Yourself
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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Honesty Myself Poverty Taste
My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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Ability Choice Friendship Greatness Myself Talent
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 felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Distance Feeling Myself Reality
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
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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Better Imagination Learning Myself Reality Time

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