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.
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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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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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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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
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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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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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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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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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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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