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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

Hunter S. Thompson

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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Country Embarrassed Generation Myself Worst
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
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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Beautiful Moments Soul Success Victory
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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Better Force Life Serious Stop
Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Goodness Sex Writing
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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Journey Myself Time Way
Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Future Reason Weird
I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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Black Light Moon Naked Need
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!
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Comfortable Death Drink Live Man Myself Soul
There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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Story Writing Yourself
All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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Blood Death Democracy Population Vote
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
Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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Lonely Love Past Planning
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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Beautiful Death Dreams Live Love Pain Planning Rise Thinking
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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Honesty Myself Poverty Taste
It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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Dreamy Fall Fantasy Feeling Pool

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