Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIt 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.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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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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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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I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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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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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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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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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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