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Hunter S. Thompson

Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Goodness Sex Writing
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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Fear Moments True Worst Yourself
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Feeling Hate Myself Old Strange Wisdom
Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I’ll drink instead!
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Comfortable Death Drink Live Man Myself Soul
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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Decision Goal Live Way Yourself
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
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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Beautiful Death Dreams Live Love Pain Planning Rise Thinking
God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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God Mercy Yourself
Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Avoid Friendship Police Yourself
These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Day Dog Rich Run Yourself
I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Compare Flame Myself
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
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Animal Behavior Creature Earth Human
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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Believe Democracy Myself Thinking
Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
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Drive Fast Fun Late Love Sleep Wild
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Important Information Understand Yourself

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