I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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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 hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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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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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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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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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
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Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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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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It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
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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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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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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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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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