I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONHope 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 miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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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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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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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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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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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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