With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONHope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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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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I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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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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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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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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Wake up and ponder the future.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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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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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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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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