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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Believe Loud Music Night Right Run
I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Compare Flame Myself
I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Distance Feeling Myself Reality
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Animal Behavior Creature Earth Human
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Journey Myself Time Way
I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Black Light Moon Naked Need
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Fear Kill Yourself
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Drugs Hate Insanity Myself Violence Work
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. THOMPSON

Feeling Hate Myself Old Strange Wisdom
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Cherish Goodness Price Worship
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Crime Final Guilty Sin Society Stupidity Thief
You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Man Place Reason Sight Yourself
If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Fact Heaven Hell Version
For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Earth Lose Place
Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Feeling Medium Word Yourself
Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Death Freedom Philosophy

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

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