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

Hunter S. Thompson

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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Fear Kill Yourself
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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Control Fatal Fear Mindset Question Stupidity Time
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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Ability Day Important Live Lonely Strong Writing
I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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Law Myself Necessary Place Try
Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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Aware Goal Life Way
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
On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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Day Need Yourself
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Myself Theory Truth
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
A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Measurement Sanity
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
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
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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Depression Mad Truth Work
You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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Man Place Reason Sight Yourself
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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Difference Power Sanity
I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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Compare Flame Myself

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