I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIf you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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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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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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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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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
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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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