Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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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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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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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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Wake up and ponder the future.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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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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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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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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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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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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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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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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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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