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

Hunter S. Thompson

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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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Avoid Friendship Police Yourself
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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Love Ridiculous Sex
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.
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Fact Heaven Hell Version
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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Expectation Law Order People
Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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Failure Future Learning Past Visit
On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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Day Need Yourself
Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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Aware Goal Life Way
God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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God Mercy Yourself
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
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Acceptance Choice Hands Life Necessary Yourself
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach
Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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Lonely Love Past Planning
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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Better Imagination Learning Myself Reality Time
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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Comparison Music Myself Word Work
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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Adventure Blood Inspirational Race Worth Yourself
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
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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Fear Kill Yourself
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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Choice Circumstance Himself Man Procrastination
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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Important Information Understand Yourself
Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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Art Crazy Form Insanity Legal
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.
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Cherish Goodness Price Worship
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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Believe Democracy Myself Thinking
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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Alone Cruelty Deserve Happiness Oneself Peace Personal Weird World
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
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Control Fatal Fear Mindset Question Stupidity Time
Wake up and ponder the future.
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Future One Liner Wake Up
All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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Blood Death Democracy Population Vote
There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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Story Writing Yourself
If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
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Character Crazy Pay Yourself

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