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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThe most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against 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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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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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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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!
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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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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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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