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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

Hunter S. Thompson

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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Adventure Blood Inspirational Race Worth Yourself
In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Final Stupidity Thief World
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
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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Country Embarrassed Generation Myself Worst
For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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Earth Lose Place
All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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Blood Death Democracy Population Vote
A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Measurement Sanity
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
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
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Animal Behavior Creature Earth Human
Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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Failure Future Learning Past Visit
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
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Existence Happiness Man Question Reading Security Stay
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
As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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Day Decent Learning Myself
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 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

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