Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONGod’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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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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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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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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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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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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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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There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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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 have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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