I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONOn 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.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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Wake up and ponder the future.
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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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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 knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
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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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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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