I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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On 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.
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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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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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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Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
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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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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
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All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
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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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