Buy the ticket, take the ride.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
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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.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson 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.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson 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!
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson 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.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson Wake up and ponder the future.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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