I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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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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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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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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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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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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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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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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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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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In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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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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There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.
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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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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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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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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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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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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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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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