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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

Hunter S. Thompson

Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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Avoid Friendship Police Yourself
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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Animal Behavior Creature Earth Human
The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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Country Down Hit Low New
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 pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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Goodness Happiness Path Search
Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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Judgement One Liner Price
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.
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Learning Love Music Seek Truth Walk Warrior
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. THOMPSON

heavy Himself Hope Normal Rare Weird Wild
Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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Aware Goal Life Way
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Oneself Ride Ticket
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
The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Ability Day Important Live Lonely Strong Writing
I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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Law Myself Problem Taste
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
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
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Difference Power Sanity

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