Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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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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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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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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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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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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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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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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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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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As 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.
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It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
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The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
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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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Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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