It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONNever turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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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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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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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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.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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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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On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
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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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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
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It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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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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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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