It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIt was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Wake up and ponder the future.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
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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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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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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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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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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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