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I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Hunter S. Thompson

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
Wake up and ponder the future.
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Future One Liner Wake Up
I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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Compare Flame Myself
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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Fear Moments True Worst Yourself
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
All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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Blood Death Democracy Population Vote
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
In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Final Stupidity Thief World
The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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Goodness Happiness Path Search
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
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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Ability Day Important Live Lonely Strong Writing
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
Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Feeling Medium Word Yourself
Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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Avoid Friendship Police Yourself
Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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Aware Goal Life Way
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
A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Measurement Sanity
For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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Earth Lose Place
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach
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
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
There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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Challenge Dangerous Death Power Risk
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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Fact Heaven Hell Version
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
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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Adventure Blood Inspirational Race Worth Yourself
It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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Life Man Myself Rhythm
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

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