Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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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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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All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
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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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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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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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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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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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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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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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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
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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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There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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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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Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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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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