I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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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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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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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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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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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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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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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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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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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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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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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It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know 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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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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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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