Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONWhen the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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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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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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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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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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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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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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Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I’ll drink instead!
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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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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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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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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
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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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