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Hunter S. Thompson

"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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"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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"Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs."

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"She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had slept in some stable loft."

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"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"

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"Madness breeds madness."

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"I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, "that guy'snuts."out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored."

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Amber Hurdle

"I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out."

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"We derive our vitality from our store of madness."

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Amber Hurdle

"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."

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"Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too."

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Amber Hurdle

"Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeals to what is fundamental, to passion and the instincts; the philosophers to what is superficial and supererogatory - reason."

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"The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy-then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece."
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"This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here."
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"What sells, today, is whatever Fucks You Up - whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out for the longest possible time."
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"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."
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"Writing is the flip side of sex - it's only good when it's over."
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"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."
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"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."
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