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The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.

Hunter S. Thompson

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Drugs Hate Insanity Myself Violence Work
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Crime Final Guilty Sin Society Stupidity Thief
The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Ability Day Important Live Lonely Strong Writing
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Honesty Myself Poverty Taste
A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Measurement Sanity
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Love Ridiculous Sex
Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Avoid Friendship Police Yourself
God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

God Mercy Yourself
Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Action One Liner Worth
There is no story unless you’ve written it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Story Writing Yourself
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Depression Mad Truth Work
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Comparison Music Myself Word Work
If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Character Crazy Pay Yourself
I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Distance Feeling Myself Reality
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Fact Heaven Hell Version
It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Life Man Myself Rhythm

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