I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONA sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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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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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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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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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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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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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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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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