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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.

Hunter S. Thompson

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Journey Transformation Weird
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 long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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Day Decent Learning Myself
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
The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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Country Down Hit Low New
In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Final Stupidity Thief World
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
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
Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
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Decision Goal Live Way 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
A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Measurement Sanity
There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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Story Writing Yourself
I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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Black Light Moon Naked Need
It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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Love Night Sleep Smile Story 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
If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
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Character Crazy Pay Yourself

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