It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONAs 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.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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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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I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
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I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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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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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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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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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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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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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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Wake up and ponder the future.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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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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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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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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