Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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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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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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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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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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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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So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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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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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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