All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONGood news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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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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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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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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As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.
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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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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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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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If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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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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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
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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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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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Wake up and ponder the future.
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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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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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