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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

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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Character Crazy Death Live
I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Compare Flame Myself
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
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
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Animal Behavior Creature Earth Human
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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Fear Moments True Worst Yourself
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
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
God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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God Mercy Yourself
Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Avoid Friendship Police Yourself
There is no story unless you’ve written it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Story Writing Yourself
The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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Goodness Happiness Path Search
Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Goodness Sex Writing
There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Challenge Dangerous Death Power Risk
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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Better Imagination Learning Myself Reality Time
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
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.
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Anxiety Day Feeling Happiness

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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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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