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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThere is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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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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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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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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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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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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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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