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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.

Hunter S. Thompson

Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Feeling Medium Word Yourself
Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Goodness Sex Writing
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
Wake up and ponder the future.
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Future One Liner Wake Up
I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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Fight Myself Right Weird Yourself
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
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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Decision Goal Live Way Yourself
Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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Avoid Friendship Police Yourself
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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Fact Heaven Hell Version
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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Animal Behavior Creature Earth Human
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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Challenge Dangerous Death Power Risk
As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.
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Important Information Understand Yourself
On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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Day Need Yourself
I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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Live Myself Thinking Way
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

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