There is no story unless you’ve written it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI’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.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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 will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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So 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?
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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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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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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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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
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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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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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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It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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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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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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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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