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

Hunter S. Thompson

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Cherish Goodness Price Worship
I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Happiness Heart Mindset Respect See 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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Animal Behavior Creature Earth Human
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!
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Comfortable Death Drink Live Man Myself Soul
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
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

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

Dreamy Fall Fantasy Feeling Pool
There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Dangerous Evil Vote Way
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Journey Myself Time Way
The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Goodness Happiness Path Search
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
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Beautiful Moments Soul Success Victory
Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Art Crazy Form Insanity Legal
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

People Politics Power Way
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
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Feeling Hate Myself Old Strange Wisdom
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Learning Love Music Seek Truth Walk Warrior
I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Black Light Moon Naked Need
There is no story unless you’ve written it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Story Writing Yourself
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
There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Anxiety Day Feeling Happiness
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. THOMPSON

Crime Final Guilty Sin Society Stupidity Thief
Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Failure Future Learning Past Visit
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Failure Goodness Liberty People Promise Reason Represent
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Journey Transformation Weird

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