Hunter S. Thompson on country
Hunter S. Thompson90 quotes“I 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.”
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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.
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.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson 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.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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