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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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.
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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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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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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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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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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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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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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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Wake up and ponder the future.
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