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. THOMPSONI learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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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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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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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.
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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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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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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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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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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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I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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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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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.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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