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?
HUNTER S. THOMPSONGod’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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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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I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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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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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.
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