I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONLife has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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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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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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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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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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If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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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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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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Freedom, Truth, Honour, you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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Liberalism 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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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
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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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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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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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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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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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