I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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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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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
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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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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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