I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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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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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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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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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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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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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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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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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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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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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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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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