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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.

Hunter S. Thompson

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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Cherish Goodness Price Worship
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach
Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Future Reason Weird
I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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Compare Flame Myself
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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Goodness Greatness Interest Myself
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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Honesty Myself Poverty Taste
Wake up and ponder the future.
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Future One Liner Wake Up
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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heavy Himself Hope Normal Rare Weird Wild
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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Expectation Law Order People
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Journey Transformation Weird
For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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Earth Lose Place
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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Ability Day Important Live Lonely Strong Writing
Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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Art Crazy Form Insanity Legal
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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Adventure Blood Inspirational Race Worth Yourself
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!
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Comfortable Death Drink Live Man Myself Soul
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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Learning Love Music Seek Truth Walk Warrior
I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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Fight Myself Right Weird Yourself
Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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Lonely Love Past Planning
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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Love Ridiculous Sex
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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Life Literature Myself Wasted Time Word
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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Character Crazy Pay Yourself
I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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Hate Myself Religion
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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Life Man Myself Rhythm
An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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Definition Law Live Necessary
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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Feeling Hate Myself Old Strange Wisdom
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
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Acceptance Choice Hands Life Necessary Yourself
All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
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Legal Ourselves Unity Vote War

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