I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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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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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.
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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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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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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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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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Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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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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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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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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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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