Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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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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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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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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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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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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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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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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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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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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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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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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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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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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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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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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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