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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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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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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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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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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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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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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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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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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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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.
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