Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONAh, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I’ll drink instead!
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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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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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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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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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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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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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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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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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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