It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONWe cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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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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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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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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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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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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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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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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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?
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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