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

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.
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Failure Future Learning Past Visit
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
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 have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Myself Theory Truth
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
A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Measurement Sanity
Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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Character Crazy Death Live
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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Better Imagination Learning Myself Reality Time
Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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Art Beautiful Face
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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Better Force Life Serious Stop
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
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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Difference Power Sanity
You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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Man Place Reason Sight Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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Fear Kill Yourself
These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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Day Dog Rich Run 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
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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Oneself Ride Ticket
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
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
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
Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Goodness Sex Writing
On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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Day Need Yourself

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