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

Hunter S. Thompson

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
It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Life Man Myself Rhythm
There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Anxiety Day Feeling Happiness
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. THOMPSON

Country Embarrassed Generation Myself Worst
These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Day Dog Rich Run Yourself
Don’t judge your taco by its price.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Judgement One Liner Price
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Believe Democracy Myself Thinking
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Failure Goodness Liberty People Promise Reason Represent
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 have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Myself Theory Truth
You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Man Place Reason Sight Yourself
I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Happiness Heart Mindset Respect See Yourself
Freedom, Truth, Honour, you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Freedom Hands Honor Oneself Truth Word
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
On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Day Need Yourself
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Beautiful Moments Soul Success Victory

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

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