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All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.

Hunter S. Thompson

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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Believe Loud Music Night Right Run
A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Measurement Sanity
It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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Love Night Sleep Smile Story 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
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
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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Failure Goodness Liberty People Promise Reason Represent
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Comparison Music Myself Word Work
If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
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Character Crazy Pay Yourself
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
Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Fire Warning Wasted Time
All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Blood Death Democracy Population Vote
Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Future Reason Weird
Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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Character Crazy Death Live
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
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Better Force Life Serious Stop
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Depression Mad Truth Work
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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Difference Power Sanity
I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Law Myself Necessary Place Try
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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Choice Circumstance Himself Man Procrastination
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
Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Action One Liner Worth
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

People Politics Power Way
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Goodness Greatness Interest Myself
These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Day Dog Rich Run Yourself
Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Death Freedom Philosophy
Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Learning Love Music Seek Truth Walk Warrior
I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Live Myself Thinking Way

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