When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThe 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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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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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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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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It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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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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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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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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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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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 damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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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 don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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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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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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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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