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Hunter S. Thompson

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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Death Freedom Philosophy
If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
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Fact Heaven Hell Version
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
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 need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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Black Light Moon Naked Need
I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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Live Myself Thinking Way
Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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Lonely Love Past Planning
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 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
In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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Alone Cruelty Deserve Happiness Oneself Peace Personal Weird World
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
As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.
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Important Information Understand Yourself
Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Goodness Sex Writing
Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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Avoid Friendship Police Yourself
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
All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
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Legal Ourselves Unity Vote War
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
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
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
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
There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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Story Writing Yourself
Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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Failure Future Learning Past Visit
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

heavy Himself Hope Normal Rare Weird Wild
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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Drugs Hate Insanity Myself Violence Work
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach

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