In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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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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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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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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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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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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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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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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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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It 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.
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