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?
HUNTER S. THOMPSONGood news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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Freedom, Truth, Honour, you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
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He had that rare weird electricity about him – that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
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As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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