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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

Wake up and ponder the future.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Future One Liner Wake Up
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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Drive Fast Fun Late Love Sleep Wild
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
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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Failure Goodness Liberty People Promise Reason Represent
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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Decision Goal Live Way Yourself
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
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
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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Freedom Hands Honor Oneself Truth Word
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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Beautiful Moments Soul Success Victory
There is no story unless you’ve written it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Story Writing Yourself
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Ability Day Important Live Lonely Strong Writing
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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Depression Mad Truth Work
You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Man Place Reason Sight Yourself
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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Character Crazy Pay Yourself
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
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Animal Behavior Creature Earth Human
I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Distance Feeling Myself Reality

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