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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.

Hunter S. Thompson

As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Important Information Understand 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
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
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Better Force Life Serious Stop
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
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
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Drugs Hate Insanity Myself Violence Work
As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Day Decent Learning Myself
Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Character Crazy Death Live
Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Failure Future Learning Past Visit
In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Crime Final Guilty Sin Society Stupidity Thief
It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Dreamy Fall Fantasy Feeling Pool
Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Cherish Goodness Price Worship
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Journey Myself Time Way
It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Feeling Hate Myself Old Strange Wisdom
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?
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Existence Happiness Man Question Reading Security Stay

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