Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONSex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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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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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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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 most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.
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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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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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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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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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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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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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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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