A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONInsanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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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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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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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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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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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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In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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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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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
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