I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIt gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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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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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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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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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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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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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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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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