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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONBeware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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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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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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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.
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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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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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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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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
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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.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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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.
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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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Wake up and ponder the future.
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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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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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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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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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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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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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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
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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.
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