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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONGod’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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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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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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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
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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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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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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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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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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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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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