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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONAll political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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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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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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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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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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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 was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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