Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I’ll drink instead!
HUNTER S. THOMPSONLife has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
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I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a 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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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.
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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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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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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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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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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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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.
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