It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.
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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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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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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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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He had that rare weird electricity about him – that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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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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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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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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Freedom, Truth, Honour, you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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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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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 hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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