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Hunter S. Thompson Quotes: If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.
         

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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Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.



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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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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.



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