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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

Hunter S. Thompson

On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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Day Need Yourself
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
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Animal Behavior Creature Earth Human
Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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Judgement One Liner Price
You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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Man Place Reason Sight Yourself
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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Failure Goodness Liberty People Promise Reason Represent
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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Expectation Law Order People
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
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
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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Country Embarrassed Generation Myself Worst
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Myself Theory Truth
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
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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Honesty Myself Poverty Taste
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach
Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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Lonely Love Past Planning
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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Feeling Hate Myself Old Strange Wisdom
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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Oneself Ride Ticket

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

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