It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
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He had that rare weird electricity about him – that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
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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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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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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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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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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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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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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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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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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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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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