In 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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONBeware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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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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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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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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Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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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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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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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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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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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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Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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