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It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

Hunter S. Thompson

You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Man Place Reason Sight Yourself
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Important Information Understand Yourself
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Oneself Ride Ticket
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Honesty Myself Poverty Taste
Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Challenge Dangerous Death Power Risk
In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Alone Cruelty Deserve Happiness Oneself Peace Personal Weird World
It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Dreamy Fall Fantasy Feeling Pool
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Fact Heaven Hell Version
It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Life Man Myself Rhythm
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Fear Moments True Worst Yourself
An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Definition Law Live Necessary
I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Fight Myself Right Weird Yourself
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Better Force Life Serious Stop
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

Country Embarrassed Generation Myself Worst
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Ability Day Important Live Lonely Strong Writing

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