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.
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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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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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 that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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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All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
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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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The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
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