If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIn a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
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Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
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He 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.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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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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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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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!
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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