And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.
Hunter S. ThompsonSex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone.
Hunter S. ThompsonRude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.
Hunter S. ThompsonI have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me
Hunter S. ThompsonOf all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.
Hunter S. ThompsonI felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively โ for the first time in a long, long while โ by slipping my notebook into my belt and reaching down to take off my watch. The first thing to go in a street fight is your watch, and once youโve lost a few, you develop a certain instinct that lets you know when itโs time to get the thing off your wrist and into a safe pocket.
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