I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThe only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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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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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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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 knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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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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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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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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In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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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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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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It 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.
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