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. THOMPSONNever 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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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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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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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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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.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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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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I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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