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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

Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Feeling Medium Word Yourself
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
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
Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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Aware Goal Life Way
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.
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Cherish Goodness Price Worship
Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
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Decision Goal Live Way Yourself
An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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Definition Law Live Necessary
If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
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Character Crazy Pay Yourself
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Myself Theory Truth
I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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Hate Myself Religion
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
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
On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
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Believe Loud Music Night Right Run
Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Future Reason Weird
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
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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Expectation Law Order People

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