Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONMy greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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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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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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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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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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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. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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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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I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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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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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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