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.
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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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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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
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Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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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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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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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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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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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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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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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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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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