I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONHe 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.
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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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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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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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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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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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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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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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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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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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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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 learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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