Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONLiberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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Wake up and ponder the future.
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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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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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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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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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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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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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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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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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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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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 damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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