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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.

Hunter S. Thompson

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Failure Future Learning Past Visit
You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Man Place Reason Sight Yourself
I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Live Myself Thinking Way
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Depression Mad Truth Work
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Goodness Greatness Interest Myself
There is no story unless you’ve written it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Story Writing Yourself
Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Aware Goal Life Way
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Country Embarrassed Generation Myself Worst
I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Hate Myself Religion
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

Comparison Music Myself Word Work
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

People Politics Power Way
An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Definition Law Live Necessary
Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Cherish Goodness Price Worship
Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Goodness Sex Writing
God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

God Mercy Yourself
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Law Myself Problem Taste

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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