All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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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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The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
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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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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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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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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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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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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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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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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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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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