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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.

Hunter S. Thompson

All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
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People Politics Power Way
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
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
Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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Lonely Love Past Planning
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
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
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
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.
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Aware Goal Life Way
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
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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Oneself Ride Ticket
I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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Compare Flame Myself
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
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
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Comparison Music Myself Word Work
In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Final Stupidity Thief World

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