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. THOMPSONIf you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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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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All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
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I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
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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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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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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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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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