I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONAnything worth doing is worth doing well.
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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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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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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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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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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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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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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