Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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.
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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
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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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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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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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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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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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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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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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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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