I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI 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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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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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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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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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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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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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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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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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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Hope 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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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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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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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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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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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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