It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONSo 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?
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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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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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 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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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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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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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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