Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIn 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.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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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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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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Wake up and ponder the future.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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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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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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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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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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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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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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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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