Hunter S. Thompson — People

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

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An open red padlock with a brass key and a pale feather on a mustard-yellow background. — Original artwork

I wouldn't recommend alcohol and drugs to anyone. But they have always worked for me.

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A miniature silver car sits beside a curled dry root on a cracked desert plain. — Original artwork

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

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A small wooden boat pitches on a breaking wave beside a plain dock post beneath a glowing cloudy sky. — Original artwork

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

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This place is giving me the Fear.

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We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like 'I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive....' And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full

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