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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThere is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
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In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
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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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He had that rare weird electricity about him – that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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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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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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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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