These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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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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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.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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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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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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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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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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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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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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