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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.

Hunter S. Thompson

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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Believe Loud Music Night Right Run
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
Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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Art Crazy Form Insanity Legal
For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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Earth Lose Place
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
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
Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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Character Crazy Death Live
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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Adventure Blood Inspirational Race Worth Yourself
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
The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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Country Down Hit Low New
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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Crime Final Guilty Sin Society Stupidity Thief
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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Legal Ourselves Unity Vote War
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
I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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Live Myself Thinking Way
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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Life Literature Myself Wasted Time Word
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
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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Expectation Law Order People
Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Action One Liner Worth
Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Goodness Sex Writing
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
I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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Fight Myself Right Weird 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
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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Drive Fast Fun Late Love Sleep Wild
Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Future Reason Weird
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
There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.
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Anxiety Day Feeling Happiness
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach

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