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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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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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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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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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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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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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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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