I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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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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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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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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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
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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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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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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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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I’ll drink instead!
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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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On 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.
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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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I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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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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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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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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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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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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