There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONWith the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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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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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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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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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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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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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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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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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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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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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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