All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
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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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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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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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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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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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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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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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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The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.
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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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