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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThere is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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Hope 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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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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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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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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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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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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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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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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