With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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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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 damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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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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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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If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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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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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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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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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