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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.

Hunter S. Thompson

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
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 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
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Journey Transformation 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
You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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Man Place Reason Sight 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
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
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
Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
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Drive Fast Fun Late Love Sleep Wild
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
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
Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Action One Liner Worth
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
Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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Judgement One Liner Price

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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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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