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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThe pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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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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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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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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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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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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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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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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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
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