With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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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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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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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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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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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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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Freedom, Truth, Honour, you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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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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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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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.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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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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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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