Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONWriting is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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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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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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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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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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Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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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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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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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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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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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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