I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONOn some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented 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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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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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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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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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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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
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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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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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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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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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