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Hunter S. Thompson

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
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
I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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Fight Myself Right Weird Yourself
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 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
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
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
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
Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Feeling Medium Word Yourself
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
Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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Character Crazy Death Live
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
Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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Judgement One Liner Price
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
In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Final Stupidity Thief World
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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Adventure Blood Inspirational Race Worth Yourself
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
The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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Country Down Hit Low New
There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
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Dangerous Evil Vote Way
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
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Myself Theory Truth
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
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
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
I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Distance Feeling Myself Reality
I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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Live Myself Thinking Way

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