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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.

Hunter S. Thompson

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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Country Embarrassed Generation Myself Worst
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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Believe Democracy Myself Thinking
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
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Journey Transformation Weird
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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Fear Kill Yourself
Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Future Reason Weird
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?
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Existence Happiness Man Question Reading Security Stay
Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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Judgement One Liner Price
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
Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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Aware Goal Life Way
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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heavy Himself Hope Normal Rare Weird Wild
Wake up and ponder the future.
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Future One Liner Wake Up
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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Beautiful Moments Soul Success Victory
God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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God Mercy Yourself
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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Honesty Myself Poverty Taste
Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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Death Freedom Philosophy
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
Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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Art Beautiful Face
You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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Man Place Reason Sight Yourself
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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Love Ridiculous Sex
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
All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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Blood Death Democracy Population Vote
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.
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Goodness Greatness Interest Myself
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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Anxiety Day Feeling Happiness
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
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
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

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