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On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

Hunter S. Thompson

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Journey Transformation Weird
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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Choice Circumstance Himself Man Procrastination
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
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
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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Better Force Life Serious Stop
On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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Day Need Yourself
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
I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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Hate Myself Religion
The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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Goodness Happiness Path Search
Wake up and ponder the future.
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Future One Liner Wake Up
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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Comfortable Death Drink Live Man Myself Soul
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach
Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Feeling Medium Word Yourself
Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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Judgement One Liner Price
I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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Law Myself Necessary Place Try
My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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Ability Choice Friendship Greatness Myself Talent
Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
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Drive Fast Fun Late Love Sleep Wild
Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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Art Beautiful Face
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
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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Crime Final Guilty Sin Society Stupidity Thief
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
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
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
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
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Myself Theory Truth
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
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Acceptance Choice Hands Life Necessary Yourself
There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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Story Writing Yourself

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

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