Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONAvoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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.
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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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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Freedom, Truth, Honour, you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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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 long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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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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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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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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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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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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