It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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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In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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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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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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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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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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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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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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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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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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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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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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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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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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