I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIt is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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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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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Freedom, Truth, Honour, you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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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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