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It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

Hunter S. Thompson

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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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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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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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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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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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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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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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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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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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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
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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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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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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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