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Life has become immeasurably better
since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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. Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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. We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines —
we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company,
we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time —
but essentially, and finally, alone.
This is what makes your self-respect so important,
and 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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. Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention
of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up,
totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone,
but they’ve always worked for me.
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~*~
Photographs by Dave Schubert
Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson