I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONBuy the ticket, take the ride.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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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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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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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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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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As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.
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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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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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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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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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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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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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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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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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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.
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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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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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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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