I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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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On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
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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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Freedom, Truth, Honour, you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
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In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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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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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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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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I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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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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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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