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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Hunter S. Thompson

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
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
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Existence Happiness Man Question Reading Security Stay
Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Future Reason Weird
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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Life Literature Myself Wasted Time Word
God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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God Mercy 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
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
I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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Live Myself Thinking Way
It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.
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Feeling Hate Myself Old Strange Wisdom
In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Crime Final Guilty Sin Society Stupidity Thief
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
Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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Art Beautiful Face
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
Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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Fire Warning Wasted 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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Important Information Understand Yourself
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
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Animal Behavior Creature Earth Human

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