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It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.

Hunter S. Thompson

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
Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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Fire Warning Wasted Time
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach
I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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Hate Myself Religion
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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Failure Goodness Liberty People Promise Reason Represent
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
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
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
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
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
Freedom, Truth, Honour, you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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Freedom Hands Honor Oneself Truth Word
For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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Earth Lose Place
A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Measurement Sanity
Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Future Reason Weird
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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Better Force Life Serious Stop
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
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
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
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
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.
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Country Embarrassed Generation Myself Worst
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Journey Transformation Weird
Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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Judgement One Liner Price
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
I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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Compare Flame Myself
My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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Ability Choice Friendship Greatness Myself Talent
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
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

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