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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Hunter S. Thompson

I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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Hate Myself Religion
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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Drugs Hate Insanity Myself Violence Work
In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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Alone Cruelty Deserve Happiness Oneself Peace Personal Weird World
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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Journey Myself Time Way
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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Failure Future Learning Past Visit
Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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Character Crazy Death Live
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
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Control Fatal Fear Mindset Question Stupidity Time
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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Existence Happiness Man Question Reading Security Stay
As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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Day Decent Learning Myself
Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I’ll drink instead!
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Comfortable Death Drink Live Man Myself Soul
I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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Law Myself Necessary Place Try
Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Feeling Medium Word Yourself
There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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Story Writing Yourself
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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Comparison Music Myself Word Work
There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
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Dangerous Evil Vote Way
On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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Day Need Yourself
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Myself Theory Truth
Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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Lonely Love Past Planning
Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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Art Crazy Form Insanity Legal
Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Future Reason Weird
I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
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Happiness Heart Mindset Respect See Yourself
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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Anxiety Day Feeling Happiness
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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Believe Loud Music Night Right Run
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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Crime Final Guilty Sin Society Stupidity Thief
I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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Law Myself Problem Taste
It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.
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Feeling Hate Myself Old Strange Wisdom
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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Choice Circumstance Himself Man Procrastination

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