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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.

Hunter S. Thompson

It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Dreamy Fall Fantasy Feeling Pool
A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Measurement Sanity
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

heavy Himself Hope Normal Rare Weird Wild
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Law Myself Problem Taste
Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Death Freedom Philosophy
It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Life Man Myself Rhythm
Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Goodness Sex Writing
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Beautiful Death Dreams Live Love Pain Planning Rise Thinking
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Comparison Music Myself Word Work
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Country Embarrassed Generation Myself Worst
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Acceptance Choice Hands Life Necessary Yourself
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Ability Day Important Live Lonely Strong Writing
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Drive Fast Fun Late Love Sleep Wild
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Decision Goal Live Way Yourself
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach
Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Lonely Love Past Planning

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