The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONNever fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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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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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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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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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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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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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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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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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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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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