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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

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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Control Fatal Fear Mindset Question Stupidity Time
God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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God Mercy Yourself
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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Fear Kill Yourself
For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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Earth Lose Place
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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Law Myself Problem Taste
A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Measurement Sanity
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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Drugs Hate Insanity Myself Violence Work
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
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
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
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
Wake up and ponder the future.
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Future One Liner Wake Up
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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Drive Fast Fun Late Love Sleep Wild
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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Beautiful Death Dreams Live Love Pain Planning Rise Thinking
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
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Existence Happiness Man Question Reading Security Stay

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