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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

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
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
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach
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.
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Comparison Music Myself Word Work
A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Measurement Sanity
Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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Avoid Friendship Police Yourself
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
You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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Man Place Reason Sight Yourself
Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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Art Crazy Form Insanity Legal
It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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Life Man Myself Rhythm
There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
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Dangerous Evil Vote Way
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
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
As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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Day Decent Learning Myself
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
Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Goodness Sex Writing

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