Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONSo 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?
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
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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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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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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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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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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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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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