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    H.L. Mencken
    “The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: age, humor, old, wisdom
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    H.L. Mencken
    “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable...”
    ― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Third Series
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    P.J. O'Rourke
    “No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.”
    ― P.J. O'Rourke
    tags: society-s-increasing-stupidity, willful-ignorance
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    P.J. O'Rourke
    “There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.”
    ― P.J. O'Rourke
    tags: responsibility
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    Aleister Crowley
    “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”
    ― Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law
    tags: do-what-thou-wilt, thelema
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    Johnny Marr
    “I am very proud of the fact that 20 years [sic] on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a result of 'Meat is Murder'. I think that is quite literally rock music changing someone's life - it's certainly changing the life of animals. It is one of the things I am most proud of.”
    ― Johnny Marr
    tags: animal-rights, ethics, johnny-marr, meat-is-murder, music, the-smiths, veganism, vegetarianism
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: life
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
    tags: life
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    Ranulph Fiennes
    “a committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide nothing can be done.”
    ― Ranulph Fiennes, Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: Updated and revised to celebrate the author's 75th year
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    Peter Cook
    “One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.”
    ― Peter Cook
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Buy the ticket, take the ride.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
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    Nick Tosches
    “The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.”
    ― Nick Tosches, Everything is an Afterthought
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: books, christopher-hitchens, humour, literature, writing
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
    tags: critical-thinking, independent-thought, opinions, skepticism, thinking
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: freedom-of-speech, humor
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Take the risk of thinking for yourself , much more happiness , truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way ..”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
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    Truman Capote
    “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
    ― Truman Capote
    tags: experience, failure, metaphor, success, wisdom
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    Truman Capote
    “You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.”
    ― Truman Capote
    tags: heartbreak
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    Truman Capote
    “To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”
    ― Truman Capote, Truman Capote: Conversations
    tags: creative-process, music, poetry, writing
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    Truman Capote
    “Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”
    ― Truman Capote
    tags: writing
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    Truman Capote
    “Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.”
    ― Truman Capote, The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
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    Karl Lagerfeld
    “Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.”
    ― Karl Lagerfeld
    tags: fashion, humor
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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    Albert Camus
    “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
    1276 likes



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