For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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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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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
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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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It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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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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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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He had that rare weird electricity about him – that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
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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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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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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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