Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONAll 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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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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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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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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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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It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
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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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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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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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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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