With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONAn outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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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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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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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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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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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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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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