I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONWith the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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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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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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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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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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There 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.
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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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