Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
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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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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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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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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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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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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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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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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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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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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.
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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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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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It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
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