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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

Hunter S. Thompson

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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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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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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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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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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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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.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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