I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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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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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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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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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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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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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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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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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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