Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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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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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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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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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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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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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
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In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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