Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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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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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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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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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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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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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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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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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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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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