I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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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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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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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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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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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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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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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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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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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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Ah, 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!
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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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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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