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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 believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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Believe Democracy Myself Thinking
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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Choice Circumstance Himself Man Procrastination
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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Depression Mad Truth Work
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
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Myself Theory Truth
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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Failure Goodness Liberty People Promise Reason Represent
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
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Acceptance Choice Hands Life Necessary Yourself
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.
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Ability Day Important Live Lonely Strong Writing
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
Wake up and ponder the future.
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Future One Liner Wake Up
He had that rare weird electricity about him – that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
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heavy Himself Hope Normal Rare Weird Wild
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
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’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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Comparison Music Myself Word Work
Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Goodness Sex Writing
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Journey Transformation Weird

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