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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!

Hunter S. Thompson

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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Life Literature Myself Wasted Time Word
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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heavy Himself Hope Normal Rare Weird Wild
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
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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Fear Kill Yourself
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Myself Theory Truth
On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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Day Need Yourself
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach
All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
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Legal Ourselves Unity Vote War
God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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God Mercy Yourself
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Journey Transformation Weird
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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Goodness Greatness Interest Myself
As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.
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Important Information Understand Yourself
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
The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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Country Down Hit Low New
Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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Death Freedom Philosophy
I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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Hate Myself Religion

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