In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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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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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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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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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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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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The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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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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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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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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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.
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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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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.
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