The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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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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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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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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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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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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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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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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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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It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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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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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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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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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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