If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I’ll drink instead!
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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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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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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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 worth doing is worth doing well.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
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Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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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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I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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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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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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