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?
HUNTER S. THOMPSONYesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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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.
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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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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
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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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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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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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Wake up and ponder the future.
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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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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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