With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThere are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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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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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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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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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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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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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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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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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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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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