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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Feeling Medium Word Yourself
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
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
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
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
I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
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Happiness Heart Mindset Respect See Yourself
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
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
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
Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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Aware Goal Life Way
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
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 only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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Difference Power Sanity
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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Believe Democracy Myself Thinking
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 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

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

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